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Jonharojjashi, part 2

Jonharojjashi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

TLDR: These past months Jonharojjashi has been making disruptive off-Wiki coordinations to disrupt Wikipedia together with other users, many being socks/indeffed due to their disruption.

Since I had a screenshot of Jonharojjashi trying to recruit someone into their Discord group for Wikipedia coordination (which they outright denied [1], not the best choice when I have a literal picture, makes you look even more suspicious) I took it to ArbCom per WP:OUTING. They recommended me to come back here to ANI. I believe all these actions were done through the Discord.

These past months there have been a surge of "new" users making the same WP:TENDENTIOUS edits, making use of the same (poor/misused) sources, all in India-related (generally war/battle) articles, many of them being the exact same topic, including poorly written *insert Indian victory here* articles. Because of this, I initially made two SPIs against Jonharojjashi's and co. [2] [3], but they were mostly fruitless.

Jonharojjashi and the indeffed user Mr Anonymous 699

1. Both accounts created roughly three months between each other. Their EIU [4] shows some quite suspicious stuff, including them edit warring together at Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent and kinda repeating each other [5]. Another user who was edit warring with them in that article was Indo12122, a brand new user who is now indeffed (I'll get to that next sub-section).
2. Mr Anonymous 699 and Jonharojjashi also edit warred together at Kambojas in a WP:TENDENTIOUS manner [6]
3. At Kanishka's war with Parthia, Mr Anonymous 699 restored [7] the pov addition of Jonharojjashi.

Jonharojjashi and the sock Indo12122

1. As mentioned above, Indo12122 was also part of the edit warring efforts of Jonharojjashi and the now indeffed user Mr Anonymous 699 at Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent [8] [9] [10] [11]
2. After I reverted one of Indo12122's socks, Mr Anonymous 699 randomly reverted me at Chola invasion of Kedah [12]
3. Jonharojjashi made a WP:POVFORK variant of Kingdom of Khotan [13], trying to push a legendary story obviously not supported by WP:RS to Indianize the Kingdom of Khotan. Just coincidentally not long ago one of the socks of Indo12122 also attempted to Indianize the topic in the article itself [14]. More proof that this can't all be a coincidence.
4. When multiple concerns were made over the article at Talk:Chandragupta II's Campaign of Balkh (created by Shakib ul hassan), Indo12122's sock Magadhan3933 suddenly appeared and started defending it. Whats even more suspicious, Magadhan3933 (Indo12122) also created literally the same article Draft:Campaigns of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya two days after Shakib ul hassan, which was even randomly edited by Jonharojjashi [15] [16]

Jonharojjashi and the sock Shakib ul hassan

1. Jonharojjashi has a history of making poorly made/sourced POV battle/war articles which conveniently result in the (often decisive) victory for an Indian entity. They initially made such a poor article Vikramaditya's west Oxus valley campaign, which not only use similar citations (Muzaffar and Fodor who are not even WP:RS) as Chandragupta II's Campaign of Balkh by brand new user Shakib ul hassan, but even another user noted that they were quite similar in the comment of the former article; "This seems quite similar to Chandragupta II's Campaign of Balkh, is it the same campaign?".
2. Like Jonharojjashi, Shakib ul hassan also misuses sources, only using the part that satisfies their POV and omitting the rest of what it says as noted by me here [17] [18]. They also both randomly requiested the protection of Chandragupta II's Campaign of Balkh [19] [20] under the false reason of "vandalism" (I'm not sure they understand what the word means).
3. Brand new and now indeffed user HistoricPilled, is a sock of User:Thewikiuser1999, and has a very similar EIA [21] to all these users. As seen in the edit history of Maratha–Sikh Clashes, HistoricPilled and Shakib ul hassan build on each others edits for example. At Bajirao I, they edit warred together [22] [23].

Jonharojjashi and the sock Melechha and indeffed user Aryan330

1. Melechha created a wikitable in Ahom–Mughal conflicts [24], which was some days after promptly edited by Jonharojjashi [25]
2. Same here; Melechha creates a Wikitable at Luso–Maratha War (1729–1732) [26], then its heavily edited by Jonharojjashi [27]
3. And the same here again, Melechha creates a Wikitable at Dogra–Tibetan war [28], then heavily edited by Jonharojjashi [29]
4. Indeffed user Aryan330 and Melechha's sock EditorPandit edited warred at Maratha–Portuguese War (1683–1684) [30] [31]. Guess who joined them later? That is right, Jonharojjashi [32]
5. Melechha's sock Msangharak trying to save the then POV infested Kanishka's war with Parthia by Jonharojjashi after it got nominated for deletion [33] [34] [35] [36] [37]

Jonharojjashi and the sock Rowlatt11

Jonharojjashi more or less restored [38] the unsourced edit [39] by Rowlatt11's sock Daayush.

Closing remark

In made response to my previous ANI [40], Jonharojjashi made a ridiculous SPI [41] of me and many other users who had called them out for their disruption. Instead of addressing the points, they simply dismissed the whole report as "WP:HOUNDING" and "biting newcomers", so I'm not going to reply to their incoming comments here unless an admin wants me to.

There is no way that these all coincidences, how many indeffed users/socks have Jonharojjashi interacted with in such a short time? Especially when I have a literally picture of Jonharojjashi trying to recruit members and denying it. These indeffed users/socks are no doubt members of the Discord. Jonharojjashi and the Discord they lead should not be allowed to edit here. --HistoryofIran (talk) 21:59, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

So this is the third time HistoryofIran has distressed me with his unfruitful SPIs and ANIs, these several attempts made by them to indef me, shows how much they are craved. If they can't prove me doing On-wiki canvassing then they are trying to get me blocked for doing alleged off wiki canvassing. Nevertheless I'll again refute all the points made by historyofIran for me doing any kind of sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry.

"I believe all these actions were done through the Discord. Yes, you believe, I don't know what you have got to prove me doing Off-wiki canvassing but feel free to show all of those unsubstantiated evidence to ArbCom. And they will just shut your case just like your other cases were closed as those were nothing but unrelated call and two different users.

Anyone can claim that they have got some literal pictures and screenshots of tagging/meatpuppetry even the nom can furnish such pictures because as we know you and ImperialAficionado have been trying to indef me and don't know how many newcomers have been indeffed because of your teamwork (not defending the guilty but have seen them tagging on multiple occasions). Note that HistoryofIran has got some personal issues with me in the past so it's obvious that he'd form a prejudice towards me even though he has been proven wrong and caught of lying just to demean me. According to them, every article made by me is poorly written/sourced but he has been proven wrong multiple times and as I said even caught of lying.

Now coming to the HistoryofIran's attempt to link me with these indeffed accounts and previously these accounts were proven to be unrelated with me.

1. HistoryofIran himself yelled that the difference between the creation of my account and Mr. Anonymous 699's account is more than 3 months, considering such a huge gap doesn't even call for a suspicion that this account is somewhat related to me moreover a check user will confirm this. Anyone can spy and can see others' activity so it's no surprise that they have been following me and indulged in any edit warring. And what is pov addition of Johnrajjoshi? It's clearly a sourced addition which is still present in the article body of

Kanishka's war with Parthia Why are you still lying?

1. 2 Indo12122 and Mr. Anonymous 699 could be a pair of sock but to say that just because a sock account is related to another suspect doesn't mean that they could be related to me. In fact I was the victim of unattributed usage of my contents in Chandragupta II's Campaign of Balkha the creator of this page Shakib ul hassan copied my content without giving any attributions. This proves that these suspected users were spying on my works and even published their own article after copying mine without my consent and instead of grouping me with them, historyofiran should group these suspected users with themselves.
2. The wikitables created by Melechha were on the hot articles which means those articles are watched by hundred thousands per month so it'd be obvious that my and other wiki editor's attention would get there but to say that we are connected to each other through sockpuppetry is a baseless allegation and perhaps historyofIran has forgot about their tagging with ImperialAficionado and DeepstoneV and how they were tagging with each other on various occasions [42]. If I had done such coordinated taggings with these alleged suspected users then I'm sure historyofIran would have found more ways to get me indeffed. I had made a SPI on ImperialAficionado by showing how these users are tagging/allying with each other and have made a sect and group against newcomers.
3. more or less? Just stop suspecting me with some random sock users. There is a bold difference in these edits, in mine [43] I have edited it on the basis of Rabatak inscription whereas Rowlatt11 had cited a secondary source [44] I don't see any relation in it and besides Kanishka's religion is a hot topic of discussion so it'd be obvious that many user will do edits in it but that doesn't mean you'll now relate all of them with me, amusing enough that HistoryofIran is trying to relate me with any far distant user.

Jonharojjashi (talk) 19:30, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

A poor, cherrypicked response which barely addressed half the stuff I said. As I expected. HistoryofIran (talk) 21:03, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

And what's so cheery picked in it? Jonharojjashi (talk) 09:41, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Editing issues of Jonharojjashi

I'm not getting involved in the discussion of sock/meat issues or behavioral problems, but I've encountered issues with two of their articles I attempted to verify with sources. One article I submitted for AFD and it was deleted (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extermination of Nagadhatta. )Today, I examined another article created by Jonharojjashi, Gauda–Gupta War, and found significant issues within it. While I addressed some of these concerns during the AFD (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gauda–Gupta War), the problems extend beyond a few isolated ones. While I've found several issues just within two of their articles, I'm concerned that other pages created by them may follow a similar pattern. I recommend a review of their articles.--Imperial^[AFCND] 17:34, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

I was not sure why Jonharojjashi restricted the timeframe of the Gupta–Hunnic Wars to 534, especially when there are sources (now cited by me) indicating that the conflicts extended until the fall of the Guptas in 550, largely due to White Hunnic invasions (with the result parameter likely favoring the Huns). It appears there may have been an effort to portray a "Gupta victory" by limiting the duration of the war, allowing the Guptas to appear successful in their final campaign up to 534. I have made a small major copyedit in the infobox section, by extending the duration to all the way upto the end of the war, and limiting the big list of the territorial changes to the final outcome of the territory. Issues have been addressed by tagging. Imperial^[AFCND] 18:51, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

A random user appeared at Gupa-Hunnic Wars, and reverted my edits; and replaced it with Gupta victory again [45], similar to Jonharojjashi, the user justified the reason by highlighting the upper hand of Guptas during an intermediate stage of the War [46]. Editor used poor sources; and ofcourse limited time period of the War, so it wasn't a heavy task to find a reason to revert. BUT! since then the user left, Jonharojjashi appeared the scene and reverted to his version (indeed time period limited to a definite time in such a way that could be counted as a victory for Guptas), and surprisingly made a request for protection of the page, accusing me and the above user being edit warred [47]. Made a comment on the talk section requesting us ro stop a non existing edit warring and didn't even give proper reasons for reverting to the version;nor said anything about the result parameter.[48]. --Imperial^[AFCND] 18:03, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Another brand new user appearing out of nowhere and doing the exact same as Jonharojjashi? Must be another random coincidence, and not anything to do with the Discord /s. HistoryofIran (talk) 22:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Responding to relevant points in @ImperialAficionado's first comment:-

• The discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gauda–Gupta War is still ongoing and anyone can see that you are either procrastinating or making excuses to provide proper reasoning that how the article holds weak sources, OR and synthesis.

Responding to relevant points in @ImperialAficionado's second comment:-

• I see no point in bringing this issue here when I have alr cleared all their doubts at Talk:Gupta–Hunnic Wars.

Instead of sticking to the topic, historyofIran and ImperialAficionado seem to be enjoying more in off-topic discussions. As we see ImperialAficionado first pinging historyofIran just to tell them see how funny he posted this on my talk page and disregarding sources provided by me. What is ridiculous is that one of the sources cited by ImperialAficionado (Dictionary of Wars) is now considered as unreliable by historyofIran but as per RSN it is reliable, I wonder why HistoryofIran then didn't oppose ImperialAficionado for adding this unreliable source (according to them). (Could be WP:TAGTEAM?) For the timeline of the War, I have provided them with Bakker's timeline of the Gupta-Hunnic struggle but they keep neglecting it and instead of focusing on the topic of the discussion they derailed it with useless laughable talks at the end. Note that the other sources cited by ImperialAficionado do not give a single reference for any involved belligerents victory and merely talk around the fall of the Gupta Empire. Again see Talk:Gupta–Hunnic Wars#Constant_disruption.

Responding to relevant points in @ImperialAficionado's third comment:-

• Strange how ImperialAficionado didn't bother to put the whole context here, alright I'll do this for him.

I have explained the reason for reverting your edits at Talk:Gupta–Hunnic Wars and placed warning templates on their talk page which was being removed by ImperialAficionado. They removed it not only from their own talk page [49] but they also tried to do the same from user Mnbnjghiryurr's talk page, which was later reverted by [50] Jonharojjashi (talk) 15:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Thats not the whole context. And its still not a good idea to suggest that me and Imperial are tagteaming with all the evidence I have of you here - because if we’re tagteaming, we’re going to have to find a new word for you and your Discord group. You’re trying to shift the focus, and it’s not going to work. HistoryofIran (talk) 16:43, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Jonharojjashi and Malik-Al-Hind

Malik-Al-Hind (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

My god, can they make it less obvious?

1. Both Jonharojjashi [51] and brand new User:Malik-Al-Hind [52] use the obscure and poor source written by a non-historian Dictionary of Wars
2. Both fixiated on making poorly sourced WP:SYNTH war/conflict articles where the Indian part wins [53] [54]
3. Like Jonharojjashi [55], Malik-Al-Hind also tries to overinflate Gupta territory/history through source misuse (WP:SYNTH) [56] [57]
4. Both Jonharojjashi [58] and Malik-Al-Hind [59] are fixated on me not focusing on User:DeepstoneV. --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:35, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't know much about Johnarojjashi but I noticed that he has similar edits like DeepstoneV (as they both edit around Ancient indian history). Since I don't know about him so I can only reply to the accusations on me.

Firstly, I'd apologize if the book I cited is not written by a historian but I found that cited in Afghan-Maratha War, so I thought it would be a WP:RS.

Secondly, my draft is well sourced, you can raise the issue at the talk page. I'll surely fix it.

Thirdly, you were extending the topic with different discussion but still I preferred answering your doubts instead of raising concerns of diverting topic, you even played the game of "response and skip" in the discussion and you only arrived there in the interval of 2-3 days (why?), I had quoted RS to clear your doubts, the other users (Flemish Neitz.. and Based Kasmiri) also supported my view so don't just accuse me of doing synthing.

Fourthly, Because of User DeepstoneV the Gupta Empire page was protected (requested by me) and they have removed several sourced contents from diff articles (reverted by me[60][61][62][63]) but instead of warning them you chose to support deepstoneV for no reason, even if they did disruptive edits. Malik-Al-Hind (talk) 19:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Actually, my “doubts” ended up being real, as you did indeed misuse WP:RS to overinflate Gupta territory, which Flemmish also ended up calling you out for [64]. But long live dishonesty I guess. The rest of your comment dont even deserve an answer, seems like you and Jonharojjashi are using the same poor lines to respond to me. HistoryofIran (talk) 05:40, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Here we go again, @Malik Al Hind If you don't know much about me then why do you want to link me with DeepstoneV? Just stop this nonsense. And why are you apologizing to Historyofiran for using this book? As per RSN it is a reliable book [65], we are not binded by their dictatorship but only Wikipedia policies and guidelines, (as expected historyofIran keeps biting newcomers). Interestingly they didn't oppose the addition of the same source by ImperialAficionado [66]. Tag teaming goes hard. Note that when I raised the same issue for defending poor edits of deepstoneV, they removed my comment from their talk page [67] because they don't want hear anything against their tag team members. Jonharojjashi (talk) 15:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

The whataboutism resumes once again. This report is not about me, Imperial nor Deepstone, but your discord group. And please dont put words in my mouth, I removed you from my talk page because I dont want a meatpuppet leader in my talk page. HistoryofIran (talk) 16:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

They could in fact not make it less obvious. Malik-Al-Hind [68] [69] and Jonharojjashi [70] misusing the EXACT same uncertain quote by R.K. Mookerji to get more pride points by having their favourite Gupta Empire "conquer/win" against x thing. Can't wait for the excuse/whataboutism on this one - can we please just indeff this whole group? --HistoryofIran (talk) 21:49, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Jonharojjashi and Sudsahab

Sudsahab (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

1. Both Jonharojjashi [71] [72] and indeffed user Sudsahab [73] use the incredibly obscure and obviously non-WP:RS by a non-historian Bharat's Military Conquests In Foreign Lands
2. Both make poorly sourced WP:SYNTH war articles with no source for the date of when it started, heck the start date doesnt even appear in the body/lead of the article [74] [75]. Notice that there are only a few days between the creation of the articles 2 March 2024 9 March 2024, this is not a coincidence that they both create an article related to a Saka "campaign/war". --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Now this. Sudsahab has already asked me to help them improve their article [76] and as I said their, I was busy back then within working on my own drafts and replying to these ANIs. Beyond that I know nothing what happened to them or their sock, keep me outta this.

I hope historyofIran knows that anyone can see others contributions and edit history, so isn't it obvious that Sudsahab could be influenced by the source used by me? In fact the book Bharat's Military Conquests In Foreign Lands. is quite popular among South Asians. So I don't claim copyright of it, anyone can read it if they want. Jonharojjashi (talk) 15:24, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

At this rate you might as well give me an invite so I can craft a better excuse for you. The two articles were created BEFORE your conversation with Sudsahab, and I dont see him asking you to create that article either for that matter. And ah yes, the non-WP:RS by a obscure, non-historian is no doubt popular amongst South Asians, and who are more than 2 billion a that. Do you have a source for that? HistoryofIran (talk) 16:33, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

A user Based Kashmiri is selecting articles for deletion that do not appear to have any issues. It seems that he simply dislikes these articles, which is why he is deleting them. Surprisingly, another user, Rawn, has voted for deletion on every article this user has selected for deletion.

DeepstoneV (talk) 15:12, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Bravehm

Bravehm (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

WP:TENDENTIOUS user that keeps attempting to remove/decrease the Mongol aspect of the Hazara (they even somewhat openly admitted it here if you ask me [77]), likely a sock [78], though the SPI might not come with conclusive results again.

1. At Talk:Hazaras, Bravehm blatantly lied that User:KoizumiBS removed sourced information [79], when they literally did the opposite, restoring sourced info (mainly about the Mongol aspect of the Hazara) removed by indeffed User:Jadidjw, whom I still believe to this day was a sock of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Iampharzad, who has a long history of attempting to remove the Mongol aspects mentioned at Hazaras. Notice that Jadidjw didnt even protest against their indef block despite editing since 2021. They no doubt jumped to another account.
2. After clearly trying to ramp up 500 edits as fast as possible to get access to Hazaras, they immediately started removing sourced information and edit warring [80] [81]
3. Bravehm also blatantly lied here to justify their removal of sourced info about the Mongol aspect [82]
4. Removed sourced info about the Mongol aspect again [83] ("According other sources, the Hazara population speaks Persian with some Mongolian words.")
5. Same here [84]
6. And here [85]
7. And here [86]
8. And here [87]
9. And here [88]

--HistoryofIran (talk) 23:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

• I've left a CT notice on the user's talk page, noting that we still haven't heard back from them here yet. I also glanced through contribution history; they did hit 500 pretty quick, however most of the edits appear to have come in good faith insofar as they weren't adding or subtracting one or two syllables consistently to get to 500, however that doesn't per se rule out revoking the EC rights or alternatively page blocking them from the Hazaras article. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:28, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

  Another removal of information about the Mongolian component - diff. KoizumiBS (talk) 10:26, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

  Because Babur never said those words in his Baburnama, but the translator added it and it should not be taken as a source. please see Bravehm (talk) 13:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

  WP:CIR issues too. You've already been asked several times why the translators don't count as WP:RS, but you've been unable to, even changing your arguments as you please [89]. HistoryofIran (talk) 14:04, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

  Another attempt to minimize the Mongol aspect [90]. HistoryofIran (talk) 16:45, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

  I restored some of those changes that KoizumiBS brought. Hazares also have Turkic and Iranic aspects, why KoizumiBS attempt to minimize the non-Mongol and Turkic aspect of Hazaras.[91] Bravehm (talk) 19:10, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

  "HistoryofIran" wrongly and falsely considers my account to belong to "Iampharzad" while I only have this account and Iampharzad's account is not related to me in any way. Bravehm (talk) 09:09, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

  • According to Encyclopaedia of Islam, Hazaragi is a Persian dialect, which is infused with many Turkic and a few Mongolic words or loanwords.
  • According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the Hazara speak an eastern variety of Persian called Hazaragi with many Mongolian and Turkic words.
  • According to Encyclopaedia Iranica, the Hazaras speak a Persian dialect with many Turkic and some Mongolic words.
  • According other sources, the Hazara population speaks Persian with some Mongolian words.

  I only rm the last one due to repetition, incompleteness, and it only mentioned the Mongolian aspect. Bravehm (talk) 16:48, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

This (According other sources, the Hazara population speaks Persian with some Mongolian words.) removal was due to the duplication of info about Hazaragi, and its sources were not reliable as Encyclopaedia of Islam, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. Bravehm (talk) 16:23, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

My discussion with KoizumiBS on the Talk page of article caused him to correct the erroneous info he had added in the article about the Mongol aspect of the Hazaras. See [92] Bravehm (talk) 18:31, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

@HistoryofIran: [93], [94]

They are not removal but restoration.

I don't know why you have taken a hard position against me and consider my every edit as something bad. As a user, I have the right to edit as you edit. Bravehm (talk) 19:47, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Bravehm once again being dishonest, removing sourced info while saying it is "unsourced" [95]. WP:NOTHERE. --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:56, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

"More unsourced" not "unsourced"

I explained the reason: "No reliable census has been conducted in Afghanistan so far".

And there were no mentions of Aimaqs and Hazaras, which constitute the majority of Ghor residents but the majority of its inhabitants were almost Tajiks plaese see: [96] Bravehm (talk) 15:41, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

It's still not unsourced though... And your explanation is worthless, we follow WP:RS, not your personal opinion - you've already been told this. HistoryofIran (talk) 16:43, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

So "www.biorxiv.org" and "journals.plos.org" are also not WP:RS for this content "the Hazara population speaks Persian with some Mongolian words." Bravehm (talk) 17:41, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

References

Request for closure

Can an admin please take a look at this case? Bravehm is disrupting more and more articles as we speak [97]. They are WP:TENDENTIOUS and have clear WP:CIR issues, exactly like Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Iampharzad and co., they even all have the same English skills! --HistoryofIran (talk) 23:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

This (Iampharzad) account does not and does not belong to me.

User: HistoryofIran has taken a tough stance against me and wants to deny me the right to edit on Wikipedia. He reverses my edits and wants us to reach a consensus on the Talk page of the article, but when I am ready to discuss because of the consensus, he does not give me an answer on the page. Bravehm (talk) 23:46, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

They're still being disruptive as we speak, such as here where they manually reverted KoizumiBS and once again blatantly lied, accusing KoizumiBS of once again removing info but in reality due it themselves to decrease the Mongol aspect [98]. --HistoryofIran (talk) 22:18, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

It was just a restoration of sourced info deleted by KoizumiBS.

This's how I did it (Restored revision 1219713481 by WikiDan61 (talk): Please do not delete previous contents [99]) Bravehm (talk) 12:59, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, everyone can see how you did it... I already linked the diff. And everyone can see your disruption through these diffs. HistoryofIran (talk) 16:54, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Their SPI has been up for a month, and this report almost a month. Can an admin please look into this case? Countless diffs here of them being disruptive. HistoryofIran (talk) 11:07, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Galamore, gaming the system

Having joined Wikipedia some 6 months ago, user Galamore has made hundreds of copy edits, in the span of 1 month, spamming categories to articles, in order to pass the 500 edit requirement for extended confirmed protection. And later, immediately started editing controversial, ECP articles after gaining the permission. Ceasing all copy edits involving categories. Ecrusized (talk) 16:02, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@Ecrusized, can you show diffs where they have used spamming categories. I just looked briefly on their contributions and I can't find much thread. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 16:16, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@SafariScribe: 130+ Category edits from 20 to 31 March 2024. Number of total edits during this period went from 300 to 500+. The last 300 edits are specifically made on ECP protected pages. Showing the user has no interest in editing non-ECP content. Ecrusized (talk) 16:24, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

JBW, you unblocked them a few months ago. What do you make of this, if anything? Drmies (talk) 16:58, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

• I'm someone who is very willing to revoke ECP if it is clear that somebody gamed it, but I'm not convinced that is what happened here. The category work looks pretty solid to me, I don't think I'd characterize it as spamming. They certainly did dive headfirst into controversial topics once they got the EC permission, but I don't think a solid case has been made for gaming the system. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 17:06, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  I thought basically the same thing. With the lack of concrete consensus on what amounts to gaming EC I let this slide without comment when I saw it. If there is any disruption in the ECR areas, WP:AE is the place to bring it up. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:10, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  ScottishFinnishRadish Mmm ... removing sourced information with POV unsourced information? [100] and bit of an issue here too. Black Kite (talk) 18:57, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Black Kite, thanks for pointing that out. Galamore, this...well this is bad in many ways. Drmies (talk) 01:35, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

  The edit at Palestinian Political Violence was introduced by a confirmed sock-puppet [101] and that sock-puppet was later identified in part because a second of their accounts was pushing to keep it in the article after it had been removed. My understanding is that Galamore was deemed not to be a sock of that group during that SPI process, but I have to wonder if there is, at the very least, some off-wiki collaboration with the sock account going on. Simonm223 (talk) 13:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

  I enquired at CU, nothing turned up, more a case of aggressive (forceful?) editing, then, seems to be their style. Selfstudier (talk) 14:10, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

  Others who made that edit were part of the Arbcom motion on off-wiki canvassing/proxying, but there are even more that made the edit that weren't connected. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:15, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

  While that isn't an edit I'd choose to make, it is a summary of (some of) the body. The Palestinian political violence diff is more concerning, especially with the sockpuppet issue. However, based on my literal minutes of research, it looks like it was edit warred over as far back as last year, so it's not like this is coming out of nowhere. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

  ScottishFinnishRadish, I hear you, but they changed from "considered credible" to "others cast doubt on their reliability"; the body of the article does not bear that out: those "others" is one single man, whose arguments are countered in the article. So that's a pretty clear POV edit, and I'm also concerned that they haven't returned to discuss or counter these serious charges. Drmies (talk) 00:52, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  There was also Biden and Kirby that cast doubt, so not quite as bad, but still not great. It's not outside of the norm of editing I see in the topic area. I'm more concerned that on top of the NPOV issue, it's also content we know has been targeted by socks and quite possibly off-wiki canvassing. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:59, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Speaking as the administrator who a few months ago indeffed Galamore as a suspected UPE, after they wrote several extremely promotional articles about non-notable subjects: this doesn't seem like gaming the system. This seems like somebody -- I despise more than anybody for this to be true, but I must admit it -- editing in good faith, or at least not doing anything visibly wrong, along the rules that we explicitly tell them that they have to follow. At the

If we don't think that "500 edits and one month" is enough for someone to edit CT articles, we shouldn't have thousands of words of policy teling people, repeatedly, in no uncertain terms, that making 500 edits and having an account for a month is required to edit CT articles. jp×g🗯️ 18:59, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I frankly couldn't care less if someone is gaming ECP as long as their following CT edits are 100% productive and NPOV. That, however, is very rarely the case - like this example. Black Kite (talk) 08:43, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

How could anyone possibly know if it's rare or not? Anecdotal experience and confirmation bias are no substitute for data gathering and analysis. There have been thousands of new editors editing CT areas, and AFAIK no one has ever gathered data about or analyzed their productivity. Levivich (talk) 14:06, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, but that's not what I said. I was talking about editors who had clearly gamed ECP to edit those articles, not "every new editor". Black Kite (talk) 22:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Even so, I feel Levivich's point still applies. I mean if it's too blatant and harmful, people may catch gaming regardless. But for someone like the subject of this thread, I strongly suspect most of the time people only notice the gaming when they are concerned over their editing and investigate further. In other words, if an editor makes perfectly fine edits in the area it's never going to come up. So unless you've carefully looked at a large enough sample of editors who've just gained ECP and determined if they're gaming then whether their edits are problematic you have no idea if most gamers are really problematic. The fact that most gamers you've seen are a problem may simply be because gamers who are a problem are the main ones who's gaming comes under scrutiny. Personally I suspect gamers are generally a problem in part because I feel most people who are desperate to edit an area make bad editors in that area. And also because IMO the 500 edits isn't just a way to ward of all but the most committed socks and make it a little harder for even the committed; but also increase the chances the editor will gain some experience how things work here before they dive headlong into a such a problematic area and the chances of this happening go down a lot when the editor just games to get there. But I'll freely admit I have no good evidence that it's truly the case, for all I know gamers are actually better than the average existing editor in the area. Nil Einne (talk) 12:34, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Don't have much to add but when I first signed up (my sign up was with the intention of fixing incorrect unsourced information in an article) I made very simple edits to fix common spelling errors to get 10 edits. The edit I made to a protected article after reaching 10 edits was uncontroversial: it was never challenged and still stands to this day. With this editor they are controversial (any edit to Israel-Palestine issue is) unless their edits were very obviously gaming the system (I've seen an editor who adds wikilinks then removes them, often resulting in disruption to an article, which is quite obviously gaming it because why would you want to reverse your own edits so often?) I don't think revoking access is proper. Traumnovelle (talk) 12:21, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, everyone, my name is Gal, Gal the teacher (in Hebrew with English letters it comes out GALAMORE). I entered Wikipedia because I wanted to write about technology, I wrote the article on Perplexity.ai (which received 568,902 views so far!!), after I wrote about a few more high-tech companies I was temporarily blocked and warned not to engage in business matters probably for fear of receiving money for it. Almost every morning, before I start teaching, I go to Wikipedia to edit and I enjoy it very much. I am Israeli, so the Israel related topics interest me. If it is relevant, politically, in Israel I believe in peace with our neighbors and want an end to wars. When I see something that is biased, I try to balance it and bring sources from both sides. Even if there is an Israeli editor who makes claims that are "in favor of Israel" but are not substantiated, I will correct it - because I truly believe in balanced coverage of topics. I am not obssessive to my edits, I just enjoy adding information and I think it is productive to humanity. On this occasion, may I ask where and when can I request that the prohibition to write on tech companies be removed? Galamore (talk) 07:27, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I'll @JBW: the unblocking admin who can hopefully say more about you editing tech companies. By my read, you weren't really formally topic banned, so technically there's nothing to appeal but JBW could clarify further. However I have to say since it's only been 3 months since you were unblocked and editors have expressed concern about other aspects of your editing since, I'm not sure it's a good idea to go back to editing areas where you got in trouble before, so soon. Nil Einne (talk) 12:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Also @JPxG: the blocking admin who was concerned about your editing although I'd note the concern was over the creation of new articles generally, and what you said is "promise not to deal with commercial companies or anything related to that" rather than tech companies in particular. Nil Einne (talk) 12:49, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

ok. thanks. The fact that the article I wrote, and remained even though they wanted to delete it, was very successful and received over half a million views, doesn't that reinforce the understanding that I am a capable editor? Galamore (talk) 06:19, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• When I unblocked, I said that I was doing so "On the basis of the assurances you have given about your future editing intentions", which appears to refer to "I promise not to deal with commercial companies or anything related to that, I will only edit articles related to education and education in Israel, maybe also about people from Israel's history". As far as I can see, Galamore has stuck to that undertaking. However, while not returning to exactly the kind of editing that they said they would continue, they have instead moved on to highly contentious editing in another area, and unconstructive editing practices, which I regard as if anything worse than the practices which led to the block. I therefore think that my unblock has turned out to be unhelpful to the project, and I will have absolutely no objection if another administrator decides to reblock the editor. However, since there have been no infringements of the conditions of my unblock, I think that any reblock should be regarded not as reverting my unblock, but as a totally new block, and I don't feel my opinion should have any more weight than anyone else's, just because I unblocked before. Pinging Drmies & Nil Einne, with apologies for not responding earlier to your notifications. JBW (talk) 12:13, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• I read the accusations and I do not understand what you want from Galamore. He contributes to Wikipedia, he came here wanting to write about companies and was blocked and then started to edit other topics and amongst other things started to edit articles on the conflict (which Israeli user who deals with Israel didn’t reach the conflict in the end?). Israel is a small country and half of what’s written on her in Wikipedia is considered “ controversial “. What is interesting is that he wrote on 4 companies in the tech sector, 3 Israeli and 1 international… Guess which 3 were erased… Eladkarmel (talk) 16:07, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

I saw what BilledMammal wrote in the Arbitration request and what Eladkarmel wrote above about my case. This reading made me think that what I’m being accused of is unfair also outside my mind, because I don’t think I broke any rules. I want to make it clear I did not mean to hurt anyone. I apologize if i broke any laws. I want to contribute to Wikipedia and I truly enjoy writing. However, if you think i need to take a break to calm down I understand.Galamore (talk) 18:52, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Spamming multiple articles with The Famous Orpington & District Amateur Boxing Club

Box32 (talk · contribs) adding promotional content to [102]; [103]; [104]; [105]; [106]; [107]. Declined draft is here [108]. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 14:37, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

• This is why I have to bring crap like this here: [109]. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 14:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

That is appalling. I'll notify the contributor responsible, and ask them to explain here why they labelled your initial edit (more than adequately explained in the edit summary) as 'vandalism'. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I thought it was something homophobic because I seen the revert summary "Stop with this gender bullshit", that was on my part i should of seen the other edits before reverting. ModdiWX (message me!) 15:05, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry--where did you see that comment related to this thread? 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:07, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Indeffed for advertising/promotion. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:00, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

By entering into this and by the confused explanation above, there may be WP:CIR issues at English Wikipedia regarding Lolkikmoddi. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:08, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

There certainly seems to be evidence that at minimum Lolkikmoddi needs to be a lot more careful with the use of rollback tools. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Disruptive, perhaps, but I'm not sure why this [110]] was considered 'homophobic.' Rollback privilege needs to be looked at here. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:37, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

It was a mistake. Sorry for any ruckus I have made. ModdiWX (message me!) 15:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Back to the topic at hand. It looks like what we have here is an editor who has access to offline sources, but has no experience with something like Wikipedia. Is there anyone who has the time to help them out a bit? I think they're editing in good faith, but Wikipedia is quite a bit different than being a boxing coach. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Maybe there's someone here [111] who'd be interested in helping. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 16:00, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Doesn't hit the right note, while this is unfolding, for the editor to restore unsourced content [112]. They've already earned their share of warnings for this since 2021. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 03:32, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Orpington & District Amateur Boxing Club has been re-created. More eyes, please. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 16:43, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

ScottishFinnishRadish, I understood unblocking them, but COI and WP:OWNERSHIP are so deep that I'm requesting a topic ban at the very least. This could allow for uninvolved editors to determine whether the article was ready to proceed beyond the draft, and if so, begin the necessary clean up. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 20:02, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Hokkien; not getting the point; off-site canvassing

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User:Mlgc1998 is a major contributor to Hokkien. This isn't a content dispute, so I'll be brief.

1. The infobox on Hokkien was far too long, as to defeat the purpose of infoboxes. I try slimming it down some.
2. A month later I notice it's been reverted without explanation, and I restore the slim version while starting a discussion on the talk page pointing out the guidelines to Mlgc1998, trying to establish consensus. Unfortunately, during this discussion they do not seem interested in anything that involved the article shifting away from their personal preferences. They generally ignored all reference to site guidelines and norms, and their reasons terminated in their knowing more than me about the particulars of this subject. To wit, their instant assumption that I and others were lacked basic knowledge of the topic left a bad taste in my mouth early.
3. I ask for input from three relevant WikiProjects, and the five people who comment in some form generally agree with reference to the aforementioned guidelines. This seems to matter little to Mlgc1998. While I am irritated, it seems increasingly unlikely that they are arguing in good faith or are trying to get the point.
4. Meanwhile, there's a worrisome sideline about basic verifiability, but this isn't about that other than to better illustrate my concerns about their conduct.
5. This morning, I get a message on Discord from another editor who saw Mlgc1998 had asked for "reinforcements" regarding the article in a topically-related Discord server. I don't feel I need to name them, but I have permission from them to do so and provide screenshots if someone needs me to. Upon me confronting them on the talk page, Mlgc1998 plays dumb.

Could likely be briefer, but I tried. My apologies. Remsense诉 10:39, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

1. User:Remsense initially removed a lot of data/info on the Hokkien page here, which I later put back some vital info that was not specifically explained the removal of prior. The speaker population number was also generalized less than what the initial Ethnologue sources had mentioned here and here.

2. A month later, I was asked to join this discussion, Talk:Hokkien#Infobox,_etc._problems, I provided information that unfamiliar editors may not have known about nor knew access of. Initially, it was amicable, but midway User:Remsense started accusing me over some disbelief they held, which I replied with more evidence, historical context, and comparisons. User:Remsense decided to ignore this and somehow took it as an offense, doubling down with more accusations and ad hominem attacks on me. I replied with more information to clear up the situation. It was ignored again and more accusations and ad hominem attacks were levied. They chose to somehow transfer their frustration to me, who only willingly provided them contextual information and evidence to them. I asked what was their specific intent anyways, besides the rough idea of trimming down the infobox. It was ignored yet again. User:Remsense then decided to edit the page anyways with what they wanted and interpret their intent as the supposed "consensus". Another editor, User:Cinderella157, later came and started threateningly talking about "WP:NOTGETTINGIT", and "WP:ONEAGAINSTMANY", and "It is time to WP:DROPTHESTICK" kind of language. User:Remsense later admits that they have asked to get more people's input. This other editor is currently repeatedly reverting any attempts at improvements to the infobox of the Hokkien page.

3. As can be seen in my past recent edits regarding the infobox of the Hokkien page, I have repeatedly tried to look for consensus and better the infobox section of the Hokkien page. I have reduced some redundant repetitions, putting some info in footnotes instead, and made it more neutral by splitting the speaker population again to per country and changing the "Region" field to the "States" field, that User:Remsense once spoke about, yet perhaps these helpful acts matter little to User:Remsense.

5. I have not asked anybody to do anything. It's natural some discord server about this topic or anywhere else discusses about happenings that take place in a widely known website that many people read. User:Remsense repeatedly talks about "canvassing", yet they themselves initially admit to it. I do not know why User:Remsense repeatedly accuses me of things they do themselves.

Apologies if there are anything of my words anywhere that may be seen as disingenuous. Mlgc1998 (talk) 12:57, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I have not asked anybody to do anything

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  Remsense诉 13:15, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Remsense I have not asked anybody to do anything.

That picture you posted basically just says that the 2nd user is asking someone what to do. And the 3rd user has simply informed them what they asked for. Perhaps, you can share a picture of your own "canvassing" yourself of other editors, since you like to repeatedly behave in a toxic manner. Mlgc1998 (talk) 13:41, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

(To be crystal clear, this is Mlgc1998 asking another person to undo a specific edit on their behalf. If anyone else has any questions, let me know. I've paraphrased enough guidelines so far that I know my continuing to do so won't help them understand here.) Remsense诉 13:47, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

(To be crystal clear, Remsense is repeatedly falsely accusing me again of acts they themselves admit to also doing. It is telling of their unchanging toxic behavior of accusations. The supposed screenshot merely cuts away the context of what those people in that discussion were discussing about. Remsense has set their eyes against me for some reason and resorts to using off-site tools like that just to frame people. If there was a screenshot posted here as well of their supposed off-site actions, would it do anything for their case? I do not know why this person keeps putting their frustrations on me and how this is any constructive to the website, with the destructive conduct they show.) Mlgc1998 (talk) 14:03, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Let's be clear, if you continue to hurl accusations at Remsense without any supporting evidence (or if you accuse them of "toxic behaviour" and similar regardless of evidence) I will block you straight away. Now either provide diffs of your allegations against Remsense, or feel free to remove them. Choose one. Black Kite (talk) 14:13, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 14:17, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Black Kite Here are some of the relevant diffs that Remsense has done on the page with context to our discussion. I would like to mention to pls consider how these looked like from my shoes. I'm not sure as well if this is due to cultural differences.

• [Remsense-1] the initial edit that Remsense said they tried to slim down last April 2, 2024
• [Mlgc1998-1] I edited it back cuz the last user, Remsense, just said that it was "stuffed" but didn't explain more specifically why the specific data that was picked to remove is to be removed
• [Remsense-2] after we talked on the Talk page and Remsense decided to ignore what I've explained when it seemed the info infuriated them last May 7, 2024
• [Mlgc1998-2] the next day I saw it and reverted it because we werent done talking and they simply ignored what I've said. I have split the speaker pop to each country as well since there is some level of uncertainty with the data on one of the countries at least.
• [Remsense-3] a revert of theirs
• [Mlgc1998-3] I put it back, cuz their only argument is "no, we gang up on you". And, compared to my last edit, I have changed the "Region" field to the "States" field that Remsense initially was complaining about in the talk page
• [Mlgc1998-4], [Mlgc1998-5] I decided to cut down on some redundant repetitions and put some long text in footnotes in an effort to make things better
• [Remsense-4], [Remsense-5] Remsense added some tags saying that some parts are overly detailed, and changed the "States" field back to the "Region" field
• [Remsense:Talk-1] Remsense suddenly adds that they tried to recruit more people to help here
• [Cinderella157-1] Cinderella157 suddenly appeared and put everything back to what Remsense wanted
• [Cinderella157:Talk-1] Cinderella157 starts talking threateningly as well in the talk page
• [Programmeruser-1] Programmeruser suddenly appears to put back at least the speaker population field to show each country's speaker population
• [Cinderella157-2] Cinderella157 reverts it again

Now, I'd like to say that I'm all for reaching a consensus and improving that article, but after the time I explained to Remsense about the historical context, it was nothing but accusations and ad hominem remarks from them and they didn't really discuss much about what to do moving forward and that's what I was always waiting for, rather than them continuously pinning bad things on me. Mlgc1998 (talk) 15:38, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Some day, you will read literally the first paragraph of what WP:CANVAS actually says. Remsense诉 15:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

It wouldn't have been like this if you had read the books and website evidences I linked, but Idk maybe I assumed people I was talking to knew how to read Chinese characters. Mlgc1998 (talk) 15:53, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I am positive they don't contain secret manuscripts of WP:INFOBOXPURPOSE no Westerner yet knows about. Remsense诉 15:56, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I'd recommend to learn the supposed "secret manuscripts" to better know how to deal with those "secret", cuz they're not that "secret" these days and they won't be "secret" if u know. Don't have to be a native speaker to know a bit on it. Before you call me smug, I have even expected you to know how to read them. This wouldn't have started if you hadn't started accusing me and doubting what I provide. Some of those info are free for you to see yourself. not even need to buy books. Taiwan ROC MOE has a website all about it but their real legit website might not be the most userfriendly but mirror sites exist like moedict and sutian. you wont find any mention of "Hokkien" there of course nor its counterpart in Chinese characters, 福建, referring to the language. ROC and PRC prefer "Minnan"/"Min Nan"/"閩南"/"闽南". If not sure how to read the Chinese characters, put them in google translate and press the listen button in "Chinese". "Hokkien" is a word that originated in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore or Malaysia. It is usually data from those countries who would readily use that word. Mlgc1998 (talk) 16:16, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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(I didn't post the preceding messages because I didn't want to appear like I was trying to make them look as bad as possible. First and final, them.)

 Remsense诉 14:18, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

(Would like to clarify as well for anyone confused. the picture with another screenshot of a picture above is a different person to the initial picture posted before it. Remsense is just showing some people's personal discussions and reactions on a matter for whatever purpose Remsense has in mind. Pls notice as well their very act of posting more pictures of different people, all for the point of framing someone and further antagonism. If that is not "toxic behavior", we might as well reevaluate the current definitions of "toxic" in most dictionaries. I do not know why disagreements about an infobox leads them to go to such lengths.) Mlgc1998 (talk) 17:47, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Mlgc1998 I asked you to show evidence of your allegations against Remsense (i.e. canvassing), or remove them. You have done neither. Indeed, you have done the opposite by continuing to accuse Remsense of toxic behaviour with no evidence whatsoever. My patience is not infinite. Are you going to do one of these things? You are on the edge of a block, and it won't be a short one. Black Kite (talk) 17:52, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Black Kite Hold on, alright. Which allegations are you looking for? Isn't this one and this one that I mentioned above. If you mean repeated accusations and ad hominem attacks, it occurred in this talk page. Is it not understandable that I'd have to clarify another picture they use to defame me? I'm sure if you were in my shoes, you'd understand why I'd reply to that one. If it's about using the word "toxic", I mean from my perspective, it seems that way, wouldn't it? Being repeatedly accused and being defamed and all. Mlgc1998 (talk) 18:03, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Neither of those diffs shows anything like canvassing. Have you read WP:CANVASS? Black Kite (talk) 18:25, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Black Kite What do you mean? I was talking about canvassing as a word itself and that was just a side comment about how ironic of their accusations to accuse that when they effectively do it themselves. The example that I've linked are but hints at their initial act. There's no telling if they had not done any canvassing off-site themselves as well. This part about canvassing is not the main thing being discussed anyways. It is just Remsense's way to try and find a way to have people banned, so they can get their way on the edits they intended. I repeatedly replied to them in the Talk page about the forward plans on the article, but from the past days, Remsense continues to choose to be antagonistic and disingenuous about it. They have threatened twice "to go to ANI" and from my perspective, I am not sure what troubles them on what I had said. In my culture, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with what I told them. Perhaps, the repeated accusations and threats are something of a norm in the culture they grew up with? I am not really sure and do not understand why they took lengths to to take things here on perceived offense. From my perspective, I have gladly provided info and been repeatedly ignored and accused of. Perhaps, I should have used emojis for my words to not be misconstrued? Mlgc1998 (talk) 18:55, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

When we use "canvassing" here, it is per a specific Wikipedia rule. Trying to use it in the general sense is going to muddy the waters. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 15:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

I just want to say that, while I've not always agreed with Remsense, they have consistently been a constructive editor who operates within the bounds of good practice. Simonm223 (talk) 14:44, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

(Had to scroll back through your contributions. If the biggest thing we disagree about is whether it should be CCP or CPC, that's fine grounds for a working relationship imo. ) Remsense诉 14:50, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

It should be CPC damnit. ;) Simonm223 (talk) 16:01, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Try again

@Mlgc1998, I really do not like being an antagonist for someone who is trying very hard to contribute about an underrepresented subject that is deeply important to them. I do increasingly feel like something has been lost in translation between us, and that's partially my fault. The last thing I want is to get such a contributor booted off the site, we have so precious few and I can't improve these articles by myself, nor do I want to. I understand how it seems I appeared out of nowhere and started ripping up work in an arbitrary manner. I don't know how to say this in the most elegant way, but it's because I really care, and I really do want these articles to be as educational and illuminating as they can be, like those GAs and FAs I tried to link you as examples on the talk page. That's why I think the infobox is so important, its design follows very particular principles meant to introduce totally new people to a subject at a glance. I want them to come away from the article knowing a little more about Hokkien and Sinitic topolects no matter how little time they happen to read the article, that's all. Can we try again? I'm sorry that my communication was not effective at certain points here. Remsense诉 19:29, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Remsense Alright finally. :) I apologize as well if there are any words that seemed offensive from what I wrote before. Since, we are communicating via written word, it lacks a tone so one could read it in different ways. My realm is mostly in wiktionary anyways. I do not like arguments like this. I've poured a lot of time studying this language that has been in decline and often set aside even in my country all to help fellow learners of it and to understand the speakers of it around me. The books I have on it are things others have shared with me as well for me to continue with adding the data for the world to learn about. Not everybody knows how to read these chinese text in my country too, but I knew at least that some taught it could reach out and further learn how to grasp it. Chinese languages are daunting to learn, but it is what it is. This language has a saddening history and my contributions in wikipedia and wiktionary are my efforts to try and improve understanding about it, despite the different bad factors that have come to plague it. It is rough, but I know multiple native speakers of it and learning it opens the mind as well on understanding why the other chinese languages speak the way they do. I fear that continued lack of data or worsening quality of info on this language would later contribute as well to its future possible demise, but we work with what data is available and at least build on top of that, even if its a rubble. I've trudged through it for the past 6 years or so, all so it can be more accessible online and be easier to search up, especially native speakers often do not realize we do not 100% understand them or their logic of speaking sometimes, but anyways Thank you! Mlgc1998 (talk) 19:48, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

A refusal to permit evidence to be discussed in a Wikipedia talk:Did you know thread requesting such evidence.

See here. [113][114] where User:4meter4 has twice hatted directly relevant on-topic comments I made in direct response to a good-faith request for evidence regarding DYK BLP-related issues. It seems apparent from reading the thread that several individuals wish to exert control over the discussion, and to prevent some issues being raised. If this is indeed their intention, the broader community might like to take into consideration whether it might be more appropriate to conduct such discussions elsewhere, where such questionable control could less easily be exerted. AndyTheGrump (talk) 19:29, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Andy, a person who has been murdered is not living. Once someone is dead, they are no longer a WP:BLP. We are specifically looking at living people because the focus of the RFC is on BLP compliance. A murder victim by definition is not living, so this isn't a usable or relevant example to this particular RFC.4meter4 (talk) 19:36, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I suggest you read what WP:BLP actually says. WP:BLP policy now, and WP:BLP policy back when the DYK you don't want discussed was posted on the main page. Policy then, and policy now, is equally clear that the recently deceased - and perhaps more importantly their living friends, relatives etc - deserve dignity. Not lurid tabloid headlines about someone who had been murdered and had their body disposed of in a canal only three weeks previously. My evidence was absolutely within the scope of WP:BLP, and absolutely relevant to any serious attempt to deal with what appear to be long-term systemic issues with DYK. If indeed this is to be treated as a serious attempt to do so. I believe that was the intention of the person starting the discussion, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to make the same assumption about some of the other participants there. They apparently aren't even prepared to wait for responses from other potential participants before trying to set arbitrary rules of their own over the scope of discussion. AndyTheGrump (talk) 19:49, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) Just going to point out there's some nebulous leeway at WP:BLP that can apply to persons who are recently deceased, should that be the point of contention:
Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion. Italics mine, bold in original.

WP:BDP also covers the recently deceased in a bit more detail. That said, it seems like the subject died in 2012, to which I would expect any reasonable person to consider as not a recent death. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 19:47, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

No, it isn't a recent death now. It was when the DYK was plastered over the main page, three weeks after McCluskie died. AndyTheGrump (talk) 19:50, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

A DYK that ran in March 2012, which was approximately 12 years ago. You were asked repeatedly to provide current examples, which you refuse to do. Viriditas (talk) 19:54, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I have already explained why I consider it relevant. I see no reason to repeat myself. As for being 'asked to provide' examples, the exact opposite is going on - as when people accuse me of 'sabotage' for even participating in a post below. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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No explanation needed, your Majesty. Everything you say has the writ of royal prerogative and nobody should ever question you again. If you should have to repeat yourself again in any manner, I shall report the offending party henceforth. Viriditas (talk) 20:47, 15 May 2024 (UTC) Attempt to goad me into making the response that comment merits duly noted. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Move to close this ANI report as needless, frivolous, and without merit. 4meter4 is trying to help, not hinder discussion. Viriditas (talk) 19:41, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Aren't you a little too involved to be making such a proposal? AndyTheGrump (talk) 19:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Viriditas: that or a BOOMERANG. Therapyisgood (talk) 19:42, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Andy, you're being disruptive. I'm having a hard time not seeing this as almost sabotage. 4meter4 is trying to fix something you have been complaining about for over a decade. Maybe you should consider taking WT:DYK off your watch. Valereee (talk) 19:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

'Sabotage'? For pointing out serious problems with BLP-related DYKs, in a thread asking for evidence about problems with BLP-related DYKs? The only 'sabotage' (or at least disruption) seems to be coming from those who jumped in as soon as I posted, trying to exclude my evidence. A sincere question was asked. I gave a sincere response. And now, rather than letting anyone else participate with their own comments on their own evidence, they are confronted with an ever-growing and obviously off-putting tangential mess. If my evidence is agreed, when all is done, to be of little concern, then why would it matter so much anyway? Why is everyone so concerned to exert control over the thread? And how is such control even remotely appropriate in the context of such discussions? AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:04, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Andy, you've indicated you're going to enter into evidence anything and everything from a decade+ ago. The discussion is about how to fix what's happening now. I've created(?) a sortable table. If you're intent upon entering into evidence everything from the past 12+ years, fine. Valereee (talk) 20:07, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

No I have not indicated you're going to enter into evidence anything and everything from a decade+ ago. I clearly and unambiguously stated that I have no intention of bringing 'every DYK I've ever objected to in the past 12+ years' here. I brought up two, because they were clearly relevant to a discussion which seems on the face of it to be focussed around adressing systemic issues. Please don't make things up. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:11, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Except most of the discussion participants repeatedly told you that old evidence wasn't relevant. Anyway, let's cut to the chase. I just proposed the "No BLP rule" on the DYK talk page you are working your way up to proposing. Why not just get down to brass tacks? Viriditas (talk) 20:13, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

As of now, I have no firm proposals. Or none that would stand much chance of gaining community approval. And why exactly, if you consider a 'no BLP rule' to be appropriate, are you objecting to me showing why it is needed? AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:21, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Well, that's not what I wrote up above or on the DYK talk page. I said that the reason I added it for discussion is because it is the natural endpoint of your argument. You also have some unknown measure of support for it. My guess is that the reason you are waiting to do this is because you feel that you can work people up to it with some kind of persuasion campaign. On the other hand, I prefer to face reality head on, and think we should discuss it immediately. I have not expressed any support or opposition for the idea, other than a separate informal proposal on the DYK talk page that would allow reviewers to discard/reject so-called controversial nominations provided some kind of conditions are met. Viriditas (talk) 20:29, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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I would very much appreciate it if you would stop trying to read my mind. You evidently aren't very good at it, but it is irritating all the same. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:39, 15 May 2024 (UTC) Please alert the Palace Guards when I will be allowed to discuss the proposal. I will be eagerly awaiting your reply in the stables where I will be tending your Majesty's horses, as befits my station. Viriditas (talk) 20:42, 15 May 2024 (UTC) Given your telepathic skills, you should already be aware of my reply. Feel free to report the breach of WP:CIVIL. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:49, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

For using examples over a decade old in a discussion about current practices. Valereee (talk) 20:35, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

This hatting is wrongly-justified - WP:BLP would absolutely apply to someone murdered only weeks prior. No comment on hatting due to being an 'old example', but to be 100% clear, BLP applies to recently-deceased people and would 100% apply to the Gemma McCluskie article/hook back in 2012. Daniel (talk) 20:02, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

It does, and it did according to 2012 policy too. Which is why it took so little effort to get it pulled from the main page, once I'd raised it at WP:ANI. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:25, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

• I voted against sanctions on the last thread to appear on this board based on the assumption that a 24 hour block would be way too short to do anything preventative, and would thus be purely punitive. I am now forced to confront the fact that voting differently would have prevented this thread from appearing at ANI. I don't see how anyone could have expected a twelve year old example to stand uncontested in a discussion about what is happening on wikipedia now. The correct response to someone challenging you on this would have been to come up with an example within the last year or so, not to take it here. --Licks-rocks (talk) 21:13, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  The argument that events that occurred twelve years ago are of no relevance would be more convincing if anyone were to show that things have actually changed in any substantive way since then. I don't believe they have. The underlying causes have never been properly addressed as far as I can tell, which is why the discussion is taking place. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:25, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  You posted examples of bad things that happened 12 years ago, and you think now it's up to someone else to demonstrate that those things are no longer happening? Seriously, this approach makes sense to you? Levivich (talk) 21:31, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  No, I posted evidence regarding events 12 years ago. People then claimed they were no longer relevant. I asked what has changed to prevent such things occurring again - in a thread started because there clearly are similar problems, even now. Nobody has answered my question. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:35, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  Nobody cares what happened 12 years ago at DYK. You cannot demonstrate that there is an ongoing problem by showing that there was a problem 12 years ago--you need to show ongoing, which means problems between 12 years ago and now--or really, like everyone is asking you, just show recent problems. I'm sure you understand this, which leaves me wondering why you would argue otherwise, to the point of taking it to ANI. It feels like you're trying to get yourself sanctioned, and trying very hard at that, and I don't understand why. Like you could not be less collaborative in this venture unless you started dropping slurs. 4meter agrees with you (on the BLP issues) if you haven't noticed, and you took them to ANI because... they collapsed your 12-year-old evidence? WTF are you thinking? If you've been drinking or something, walk away from the keyboard now. I'm at an honest loss about why you would try to disrupt the very process you tried so hard to start. It's just pure self-sabotage behavior at this point. Levivich (talk) 21:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  Can you point to where everyone was asking me to submit more recent evidence? I don't see that: what I do see however is an attempt to stop me submitting anything. Including things I had no intention of submitting in the first place. And no, I'm not drunk. Been on the wagon since, um, 2012 or so. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  Sure, let me quote some examples from the WT:DYK page:

  • "If it hasn't happened in twelve years then it's not a recurring problem. This is why 12-year-old evidence sucks." - That's me, and perhaps it wasn't clear but this was an implicit request for more recent evidence.
  • "Again over a decade ago. Let's focus on current issues?", "Andy, I don't think anyone would disagree these were bad. But let's focus on today's issues.", "Andy, I mean this absolutely sincerely: why? If we want to fix now, let's focus on now." - that's val asking 3 times
  • "Old evidence doesn't get us any closer to this answer. The majority of the respondents to this discussion have asked you to provide current evidence only. I'm asking you as well." - that's Viriditas

  Oh and here's a bonus:

  • "All BLP examples, regardless how old, will be accepted." - that's 4meter, the editor you've brought to ANI, and it directly undercuts your statement above that "what I do see however is an attempt to stop me submitting anything"

  Let it sink in: the editor you brought to ANI (1) agrees with you about a BLP problem at DYK, (2) has volunteered their time to start an analysis of said problem, and (3) explicitly said all evidence should be accepted regardless of how old, so they even defend your 12-year-old evidence. And you call this "an attempt to stop me submitting anything"? Because somebody hatted a part of that. I hope you can recognize how illogical this is. Levivich (talk) 22:22, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  Sorry, but I'm not going to debate logic with someone who thinks that it is appropriate to make evidence-free allegations of drunkenness in an ANI thread. If that were actually appropriate, I could probably point to actual evidence that might suggest the same - regarding people complaining that I'd supplied evidence, people complaining that I intended to submit more, and then complaining that I hadn't submitted any more. If I wasn't firmly on the wagon, after all that I might very well see the merits of a stiff drink. If my head is going to spin, I might as well enjoy it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:32, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  Sigh, you know damn well that "If you've been drinking or something, walk away from the keyboard now" is not an allegation of drunkenness. And even if it were, so what? If somebody is inexplicably acting irrationally, impairment is a legitimate question. But I'm done spending any more of my time trying to save you from yourself. You want to be indef'd or TBANed DYK, have at it. Believe me, though, nobody is going to view you as a victim here. Levivich (talk) 22:37, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  The burden of proof for your own claims is on no-one else but you. Also, this is ANI, very explicitly not the place for you to litigate content disputes. --Licks-rocks (talk) 22:27, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

• @AndyTheGrump I'd like to know why this was taken straight to ANI? It seems unnecessarily combative. We could have talked about this civilly on my talk page, as this was simply a misunderstanding over the relevance of the evidence. I was unaware of the recently deceased portion of the BLP policy. Anyways, I have added the example to the table in a neutral manner, so the issue brought up here is no longer relevant. Please avoid editorializing evidence and simply present links and a short description of the problem in the tables that have been created. I know others may disagree, but for the sake of objectivity I think we should accept older evidence. As I stated at the DYK talk page, editors are smart enough to know how to weigh older versus newer incidents in their comments. My guess is some will question the relevance of the older evidence at the RFC, and others will not. I don't think it will derail the RFC to be more inclusive in the evidence gathering process. Best.4meter4 (talk) 21:37, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  My edit summary, when I reverted your initial hatting: Read WP:BLP. Read WP:BLP from 2012. Both make it absolutely clear that this DYK was within the scope of policy. And note that when you hatted it, I had already pointed out in my initial post in the thread you hatted that WP:BLP policy, then and now, was clearly in scope. If you failed to read WP:BLP after all that, it is down to you, and I really don't see why I should have been expected to discuss anything on the talk page of someone who then hatted the material again with no edit summary at all. That looks like a refusal to engage, not a request to talk it over. As for your comments about the relevance of older evidence, I have already tried to make the same point. The decision as to what is or isn't relevant needs to be made collectively, after an appropriate time has elapsed, when people can assess submissions as a whole. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:53, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  Actually, I wasn't aware that you had removed it. I mistakenly thought I hadn't saved the page as I have been having internet connectivity issues, and was in the middle of trying to set some guideline for productive posts. But this is besides the point, ANI shouldn't be the first step in conflict resolution. Please assume good faith and try and work with others through personal messages first rather than going directly to ANI. You are much more likely to win allies that way. I will set up a discussion thread for evidence issues to keep it separate from the list section. One reason why I hatted that conversation is I felt it could persuade others to not post evidence. We really need to keep the evidence gathering section simple and discussion free in order to not dissuade people from participating. If the evidence gathering area gets heated it could stop people from wanting to participate and choosing to put evidence forward which would harm the progression and ultimate outcome of the RFC.4meter4 (talk) 22:31, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  The evidence section was entirely 'simple and discussion free' until people objected to me submitting any. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:38, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

  Well I have accepted that submission. It's in the table. Let's move on.4meter4 (talk) 23:02, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't see that this needs to be on ANI. OTOH, in an RFC of that sort it seems unhelpful for a involved editors to try to clerk in such ways, and especially to keep trying to clerk when there is dispute and where they clerking seems to be at least partially based on a serious misunderstanding of BLP. Also I'll be blunt that anyone who's understanding of BLP is so poor that they think it does not apply to the recently deceased probably shouldn't be so extensively involved in discussing the interaction of BLP-DYK anyway. Leave that for editors who actually understand BLP. Note also while there may be reasonable dispute over whether it's helpful to have such an old example it seems if the better solution if there is dispute over the hatting would be for editors who feel it's irrelevant to just say it's too old to be considered if needed and not participate in further discussion, rather than try and enforce a hatting. Ultimately the discussion would not be too distracting if editors do not participate. Nil Einne (talk) 00:19, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

@Nil Einne I may not be a BLP policy expert, but I don't think there is anyone else willing to take this on. I don't think it would be happening otherwise. I don't generally coordinate group discussions, and I would hope making some mistakes along the way would be met with some grace per WP:AGF. I have participated in many BLP related disputes at DYK in the last year; none of them involving recently deceased individuals, which is why my working memory on BLP issues had a gap. This is also not an RFC yet, so please don't refer to me as an RFC clerk. It's a talk page discussion gathering input before an official RFC proposal is made. The whole point of it is to draw on communal input in framing an RFC discussion. Other editors at DYK who want to assist and take on a leadership role are welcome and encouraged to pitch in, and I am trying to respond and adapt to others input as I go with an open heart and sense of service. I hope I will not be the only one involved in coordinating the discussion. We now have a table set up in the posting evidence section, and I will have a separate place for discussion if there are issues with anything posted in the table. What I wanted to avoid was lengthy disputes inside what was supposed to be a list. That is disruptive visually to a working list, and makes it hard to locate listed items. It's my fault for not having anticipated a need for a place to discuss disputed evidence ahead of time that was in a separate location from the list itself.4meter4 (talk) 01:34, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) This is what it looks like when an editor has carte blanche to flip tables over and generally go nuts. I agree with Kusma who told ATG (paraphrase) help review or check prep sets - don't scare away the participants. I could hardly read the WT:DYK page as a result of foot stomping. It is not helpful or collegial. Lightburst (talk) 04:19, 16 May 2024 (UTC) my comments are not not needed.

1. AndyTheGrump opened a thread at WP:ANI referring to DYK contributors as "idiots".[115]
2. 4meter4 responded to the legitmate WP:BLP concerns in that thread by starting a discussion to list problematic DYK nominations and discuss common problems.[116]
3. AndyTheGrump responded by linking to discussions from over a decade ago where he called DYK contributors "halfwit"s and "morons".[117]
4. 4 different editors explained why this was derailing the discussion. ATG responded by casting aspersions about how "some would apparently prefer to exclude anything they would prefer not to get scrutiny".[118]
5. 4meter4 hatted that part of the larger discussion.

This is probably why we have Wikipedia:Civility as a policy. It's not realistic to expect editors to engage on preferred terms while insulting them, mocking them, and seemingly demanding that they post links to a WPO thread doxxing them.[119] I don't see an issue with 4meter4's conduct, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 04:16, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Regarding the 'doxxing' please note that it wasn't there when I asked that evidence being presented against me was backed by the links that are a basic requirement of ANI threads. How is anyone supposed to respond to claims not backed up by evidence? At no point did I dox anyone, and for the record, I stopped posting at WPO over a month ago due to what I consider to be entirely inappropriate behaviour in that regard. Given that WP:CIVIL shouldn't apply to comments regarding non-Wikipedia-contributors over at WPO, I feel free in stating that I consider the 'doxxing' in that thread to be a further example of the sort of fuckwittery that led me to stop participating there. It seems readily apparent to me that certain individuals there are using the site to massage their own egos rather than as a forum for legitimate criticism, and they do so without the slightest regard for consequences. External scrutiny of Wikipedia is an absolute necessity, and no external site is ever obliged to follow Wikipedia rules, but if a forum wants to be taken seriously, it needs to show some evidence of wishing to be taken seriously. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:44, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

At this point it almost seems like ATG wants sanctions; I can't help but think of why they thought it was a good idea to do this again.wound theology◈ 06:43, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• ANI is for behavior that is urgent or that is intractable. Whatever one thinks of 4meter4's earlier hatting of a couple subthreads in a discussion at Wikipedia Talk:Did You Know that wasn't something as formal as an RfC or such, I don't see the matter as having been so urgent as to require ANI intervention, since this discussion presumably will last for quite a while yet (multiple days at a minimum; perhaps weeks) and there was plenty of time to let moods cool and to work out what evidence should or shouldn't be included. It also doesn't seem to be or have been all that intractable, with how 4meter4 has by now apparently taken feedback on board by apologizing for misremembering how the recently deceased factor into BLP, creating a section for discussion of disputed evidence, and overtly stating older evidence can be added to the table now created in that talk thread. This ANI thread doesn't seem to indicate much at issue in 4meter4's behavior. Instead it makes apparent that by doing nothing about AndyTheGrump's behavior, administrators and the community have failed to prevent that behavior from continuing. AndyTheGrump's treatment of other users is an intractable behavioral issue. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 07:08, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Andy seems to have an overall issue with DYK and is throwing everything he can at the wall to see what sticks in an effort to get his way. It's absolutely disruptive and if he won't agree to step away & cool down, the community needs to enforce sanctions to stop the disruption. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 15:49, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

There have been three threads about ATG‘s behavior one of them boomeranged the other one had no action and this is the third one And they were all pretty recent I think the community needs to do something whether it be a warning a block a ban or whatever just something

ATG‘s behavior is unacceptable Maestrofin (talk) 07:12, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

We all know there were better ways for ATG to make a point or start a larger conversation. I am not sure that issues would have received the attention they have if ATG only whispered their concerns but I very much disagree with the way they started the conversation. I believe that ATG was right on BLP related hooks.

I feel like I can respond to the substance of ATG's argument now that the attack part of their message is over. I would be against sanctions for ATG at this point. I hope that ATG decides to do some background work at DYK as Kusma has suggested. There have been multiple conversations in the days after that first ATG post at ANI and some are not needed, like this one. Working in the DYK section of the project is difficult and stressful work at times - especially now. Lightburst (talk) 14:10, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

So, kick the can down the road until he does it again? And again? And Again? This is a repeat pattern, it's not going to get better. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 16:37, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Nothing in the way of sanctions to consider so far. Just a general feeling that the discussions started by ATG have been disruptive. I cannot disagree with that. I think DYK has been disrupted enough. The project's volunteers are self-reflecting and involved in multiple discussions about how to move forward. I am not sure what we can do here besides close this discussion as it has run out of steam. If you have a proposal about ATG I am sure editors would consider it. Otherwise we are just loitering here. Lightburst (talk) 17:13, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Proposal of indefinite block for AndyTheGrump

• Support as proposer. As multiple editors have observed in this and a prior thread, AndyTheGrump's violations of Wikipedia policies on civility and his ongoing disruptive behavior are part of a long-term and intractable pattern which is unlikely to improve. This block is a preventative measure to prevent future disruptive and uncivil behavior from harming the project, as the probability is high that AndyTheGrump will behave this way again. Rather than kick the can down the road, the community should enforce sanctions in order to preserve a collegial editing environment and protect editors from harm. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 17:26, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support a t-ban from DYK. I wouldn't like to see an indef from everything. I even kind of hate to see it from DYK, as I think constructive criticism from people who aren't regulars there can be very helpful. But Andy's contributions are a net negative at that project. I would not object to a t-ban from DYK, broadly construed. If we can get Andy to recognize that his ongoing contributions aren't productive there, maybe they could be constructive. But simply allowing him to continue to disrupt there because in general we consider him a valuable contributor is not the answer. From his own diffs from twelve years ago calling people morons and halfwits to this week's posts here calling people idiots, it's been going on for over a decade without anyone taking action. Enough is enough. He needs to figure out how to contribute productively or walk away. Valereee (talk) 17:38, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I agree with everything you wrote, but I'd say that he has walked away from DYK, at least for the last 48hrs. Right now -- today, yesterday -- there has been no disruption of DYK by Andy. If it happened again, yeah, TBAN, but it hasn't and perhaps the discussion so far has already been enough to prevent it from happening again. Perhaps if/when he comes back to DYK he'll be chill about it. If not, then TBAN, but for now, I gotta go with oppose TBAN, and because an indef proposal at ANI is equivalent to a siteban, oppose indef. Levivich (talk) 17:47, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  This happened on the 15th. That's three days after his previous disruption on the same topic. What we're seeing is already the "if it happened again". Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 17:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Only if you're use the word "seeing" to describe something you saw three days ago. What I'm seeing is that WT:DYK has continued over the last few days, Andy has continued editing over the last few days, but Andy has not participated at DYK over the last few days. I agree with sanctioning people if they don't walk away; I don't agree with sanctioning people as they're walking away. Levivich (talk) 17:53, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  So you're thinking not being disruptive for 48 hours is evidence he's finally after more than a decade straightened up and is ready to fly right? Well, obviously I'm very close to this discussion, but your opinion is one I trust. Valereee (talk) 17:57, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Not exactly, but I think his non-participation for 48 hours (while the discussion has actively continued at WT:DYK; I'd feel differently if the discussion just dried up over those 48 hours, but they didn't) is evidence that he has chosen to walk away.

  I see it this way:

  • There was no participation in, and thus no disruption of, DYK in January, February, March, or April of this year (as far as I know, from looking at his contribs, didn't go further than Jan)
  • He disrupted DYK on May 12, 13, 14, and 15th -- four straight days of disruption. During that time he almost got sanctioned and bunch of people told him to cut the crap.
  • Then, he continued editing (again: I'd feel differently if he wasn't actively editing) on May 16 and May 17 with (so far) no participation in or disruption of DYK.

  So 2 days of non-participation, following 4 days of disruptive participation, following months of non-participation. I'd be willing to give him the chance to walk away from it. Maybe he'll never come back to DYK. Maybe he'll come back but not be disruptive. Maybe he'll come back and be disruptive (or be disruptive elsewhere). If either of those last two things happened, I'd be in favor of severe sanctions (TBAN, indef). But for now, if walking away works, maybe give it a shot? I'll note also that he removed the "idiots" rant from his userpage following people complaining about it during these recent threads, which I also take as some sign of progress. I can understand if others don't think any more WP:ROPE should be given here. Call me a softy? Levivich (talk) 18:25, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I would also support a topic ban from Did You Know. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 21:02, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Support a t-ban from DYK per Valereee. BorgQueen (talk) 17:45, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support a t-ban from DYK per above, this was started only three days after the previous DYK-related drama and a t-ban would clearly be preventing more in the future. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 17:47, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Strong support for a topic ban, mild support for an indef. I do think that there are serious issues here but I would like to see whether or not a topic ban can remedy them before declaring them truly intractable. As a side note I think that AndyTheGrump's name has given them a massive amount of leeway to be grumpy in a way that would have gotten other editors blocked... Which is not necessarily their fault I must add, they likely did not intend that consequence of their name. I know when I first encountered incivility from them I was amused more than anything else, it was funny that the behavior matched the name... As a result I didn't handle it like I would have from another editor which probably gave the idea that it was OK. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:56, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I didn't realize that worked; I should have named myself LevivichTheInsufferable (talk) 18:16, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  there is a bizarre logic to it... Its a camouflage of some kind, on the opposite end we are very quick to scorn and block accounts with names like "CommonSenseJoe," "Edits-in-Good-Faith" and "Neutral Point of View Upholder." If you point out that AndyTheGrump is being unreasonably grumpy you look like a pedantic asshole no matter how right you are. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 18:54, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Comment I feel like Hydrangeans goes right to the nuclear option - as they did in the ANI about me (below). It is helpful to remember that we are all volunteers here. We should find the least restrictive way to stop a a disruption. I think as Levivich points out we are not stopping a (current) disruption with a Tban and a siteban is an overreach/nuclear option. I already made it clear in a previous thread/proposal that I was unhappy with the disruptions... but if they stopped we should get back to business. Lightburst (talk) 18:03, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  We are indeed on balance largely volunteers, and that includes the victims of incivility. An ongoing pattern of incivility is itself restrictive as such behavior affects many editors, chilling participation by creating an unsafe environment where editors are obliged to fear and tiptoe around harassment. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 20:59, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Editors who are eager to go for the nuclear option also create a chilling effect. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 21:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose Indef. This is shooting the messenger rather than dealing with the message. In this case, the latter is that the project is not fit for purpose. Of all our main page projects, it is the one most consistently questioned at WP:ERRORS. It is the one that leads to most ANI threads regarding its members. WP:FAC and WP:ITN manage to avoid the repeated dramah. The question is, why can't DYK? What is there about the project that attracts such ill-publicity? I assume it's because it does not, unlike the other projects, have the necessary rules, and the concomitant checks and balances, to ensure the strict adherence to core policies and guidelines that the rest of the community expects. You see what happens; the walled garden that is DYK approves something, and the moment it comes under scrutiny from editors who neither know nor care about the minutiae of DYK, inherent failures are exposed.
  Incidentally, I feel a new-found respect, if not warmth, towards the editor Lightburst. ——Serial Number 54129 18:14, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  That question is easy to answer: DYK posts 9-18 8-16 new things per day; TFA posts 1 per day; ITN posts 1 per week. Just from this discrepancy in base volume, we can expect 10x or more WP:ERRORS reports from DYK than from TFA and ITN combined. Levivich (talk) 18:20, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  It's not a numbers game. It's a matter of approach. Editors are not permitted to abrogate responsibility for the quality of their edits purely on account of their quantity. Do not talk to me again. ——Serial Number 54129 18:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Something that has been pointed out in multiple discussions, including an RfA. We can differ over whether DYK should exist, but the project produces 8-16 entries a day. AFIK it's the only place on the entire project with multiple deadlines every day. Valereee (talk) 18:26, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  A 9th list item has snuck in today! Levivich (talk) 18:28, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  It does that from time to time. DYK used to get huge criticism from not "balancing" ITN/OTD. Not sure whether this was an attempt at that. Sometimes it's that someone objects to a hook being pulled and not getting a "fair" time run. Valereee (talk) 18:33, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Serial Number 54129, halfwit, moron, idiot, his own diffs. Some of which are from over a decade ago. Whether he's correct to be concerned seems like we're saying "It's okay to personally attack other editors as long as you have a point." We can criticize without becoming personal. Valereee (talk) 18:22, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Exposing this was indeed a good thing, but Wikipedia:Being right isn't enough, and Andy should learn to point grievances (especially important ones) without attacking and antagonizing other contributors. I also oppose indef for that matter, but a topic ban for DYK would definitely be a good thing (until Andy learns to work more constructively in a collaborative environment), because hostility is not counterbalanced by having an important message. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 18:23, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Chaotic Enby, that is true, yet I was referred to as a blatant homophobe, and transphobe but nobody suggested that is a PA. No sanctions. I am sure the editors who hurled the insults at me were filled with the same righteous indignation that ATG felt on this policy issue. Plenty of editors involved in the Tate discussion were prepared to ignore BLP in favor of a DYK hook that would portray him in a bad light. I am not saying the final hook reflected that, but the discussion was full of editors who felt like they had the moral high ground without consideration for WP:DYKHOOKBLP. Lightburst (talk) 18:36, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

It is a cruel irony that the editors who aggressively pursue a narrow vision of civility enforcement are typically unwilling to reflect on their own behavior. In this community, double standards are the norm. Name-calling is easy to spot, but a lot of editors don't look deeper at the effects of the more subtle forms of incivility that savvy veteran editors can dish out without consequence. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 21:13, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

To be clear, I wasn't involved in the other discussions Lightburst referred to, so, unless I misread this and their own behavior wasn't referring to me, I am genuinely curious what you mean by that. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 22:42, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

It was a general remark not based on any single editor. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 13:42, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Looking at the thread below, if that's what you're referring to, Liliana did not call you a homophobe, a transphobe, or "blatant" anything, but said of a comment you made that I can't read this as something that's not transphobic. Commenting on someone's character is a personal attack, but commenting on a specific action is not, and there is an important difference between both. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 22:31, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Chaotic Enby The title of the thread was something I took as a PA and it was only changed after I complained - you can click there to see the smear. Ironically the editor who made this very proposal (Hydrangeans) also attacked me saying, "...Lightburst makes Wikipedia less safe for trans editors". So yeah I see both of these things as a personal attack and uncivil. The irony is that Hydrangeans wants to indef ATG for incivility. Some PAs are more severe than others... I can take Andy's off hand idiots comment better than I can take a smear against my character or an accusation that I somehow threaten trans editors. Lightburst (talk) 23:21, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't know about the original title of the thread. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 23:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose Indef I'm honestly quite sympathetic to an editor who has identified a core problem with how Wikipedia operates and who has got a lot of flack for passionately bringing it up. I'm neutral on the DYK tban. Might be good for Andy's blood pressure in the long run but an indefinite block is definitely too far. Simonm223 (talk) 18:17, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Simonm223, identifying it and calling editors halfwits, morons, and idiots is two different things. Passionate does not have to mean namecalling. Valereee (talk) 18:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I am not comfortable banning an editor from the whole project indefinitely over name calling. Simonm223 (talk) 18:31, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Simonm223, indefinite does not mean infinite. An editor who is indef'ed can literally be unblocked five minutes later if they convince someone they sincerely mean to stop doing what they're doing. Valereee (talk) 18:36, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I am perfectly aware of what indefinite means. However I don't believe an indefinite block is an appropriate measure for name calling. Simonm223 (talk) 18:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  For namecalling over a decade with no indication that they plan to stop? Valereee (talk) 18:46, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Generally speaking making four replies to every !vote that goes opposite the way you want doesn't persuade anybody. Simonm223 (talk) 18:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Believe me, I get that, and I'm not happy that I seem to be the only person here who is willing to get into the fact so many opinions are completely out of policy. It's not a comfortably position for me to be in.

  What I'm trying to make sure is seen is that you and multiple others are misunderstanding major points here. Blocks are not punishment. Indefs are not worse than time-limited. Personal attacks are not okay just because you have a point. Valereee (talk) 19:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Support non-indef block, weak support t-ban - Although Andy has identified a problem with DYK, calling the contributors "idiots" and the like not only violates one of Wikipedia's core pillars, but is actually detrimental to the progress he was trying to make by distracting people from the issue. As I stated in the previous 24 hour block proposal, Andy is still a respected editor in many areas of Wikipedia, but the incivility problem has been ongoing for many years with no signs of improvement. I don't know that an indef block is necessary, but a longer block (at least a week or two, maybe a month) to let him blow off some steam might be beneficial. If the incivility continues after the block expires, then I would support an indef. - ZLEA _T\^C 18:21, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose. I would like Andy to be able to participate in the upcoming RFC. I suggest a formal sanction that he has failed to follow WP:CIVIL with a warning that future incivility at DYK (or elsewhere) will result in an immediate block. This should alleviate concerns over future behavior problems, and provides a quick pathway forward to solve any continuing issues quickly should they arise. It simultaneously allows Andy to continue participating at an RFC where I think his perspective may have value.4meter4 (talk) 18:33, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  @4meter4, are you suggesting a logged warning? Valereee (talk) 18:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Valereee I'm not well versed in disciplinary proceedings on wikipedia. I was suggesting a warning with teeth where an admin can swiftly block without needing to discuss it first because of the prior warning. If that's done through a "logged warning" (I don't know what that is) then yes.4meter4 (talk) 18:38, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Any admin can actually block without needing to discuss it first. The issue is that if it seems to be unjustified, people will object, and in the case of well-respected long-term contributers such as Andy, many users want to give more leeway, so there may be objections. A logged warning can help provide rationale to allow an admin to take an unpopular step. It sucks that that is what's necessary to deal with behavior issues from otherwise positive contributors who have some area in which they are simply apparently unable to contribute constructively, but there it is. Valereee (talk) 18:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I would definitely support a logged warning then.4meter4 (talk) 18:49, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Me too. Levivich (talk) 19:26, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Oh wait, nvm, that's already happened. Levivich (talk) 19:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose When closing the previous thread calling for a 24-hour block I noted that "There is a general consensus, even among thos who opposed the block, that Andy's tone in opening the above section was uncalled for and that he be more careful with his words in the future." That was three days ago, it's still right up the page. Andy hasn't been an issue at DYK for two of those three days, but now we're going for an indef? I'm not excusing his behavior, phrasing things the way he did is not conducive to collaborative editing and is ultimately self-defeating (see my own essay on how I learned this lesson), but I don't see how an indef is caleld for at this time. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 18:42, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Just Step Sideways, Andy opened this. Valereee (talk) 18:45, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose Absolutely not, this is nothing more than an opportunist proposal. There wasn't any consensus on a 24 hour ban, so an indefinite block is far fetched at this point. This comes across as a reactionary measure to issues ATG raised in the main topic here. Despite his recent actions, as well as unnecessary edit warring at Andrew Tate (as some sort of reaction to the controversial BLP hook issue), he just needs to take a break and get some more sleep in his life. He's already been officially warned it seems, and there's nothing between that warning and now that deserves further punishment. Resurfacing failed proposals usually doesn't get very far. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 19:06, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  FWIW, blocks are never punishment, and an indef is not somehow "worse" than a 24-hr one. Indefs can literally be lifted five minutes later if an admin is convinced the person is willing to stop doing what they're doing. Valereee (talk) 19:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose indef, oppose t-ban, support short disciplinary block at most. Andy's behaviour falls very far from my threshold of an indefinite ban. He also doesn't cause significant damage to the DYK section, although admittedly he brings a fair degree of disruption there. I could support a temporary t-ban if other folks on the DYK team confirm that no other disciplinary action is feasible. — kashmīrī ^TALK 19:17, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  As above, blocks are not punishment. Indefs are not somehow "worse" than time-limited blocks. Blocks are to prevent further disruption, which in this case is the ongoing for now over a decade habit of calling people idiots, halfwits, morons. Valereee (talk) 19:46, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I have a lot of respect for you Valeree, but I think your comment here points up the disconnect between how admins experience Wikipedia as compared to the rest of us. I suspect that most non-admins would strongly disagree with your statement that indefs aren't any worse than time-limited blocks. Sure, an indef block can be lifted in a short amount of time, but the blocked user has no way of knowing whether or not it will be lifted. And more often than not, the block will be reviewed by someone who has never been blocked themselves. Valeree, I note that you have never been blocked, so frankly you (and most other admins) don't know how it feels to be blocked, indef or otherwise. And again, I mean all of this with sincere respect because you are one of the good admins. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 21:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Lepricavark, thank you for your kind words. Many admins are reluctant to lift a time-limited ban. Many assume it should be repected. An indef, unless it's by the community and is specified as "can be appealed in six (or whatever) months" is generally seen by basically all admins as "use your judgement; if you think this editor gets it, lift it." In fact many of us specify that when placing the indef. I very typically note "This can be lifted by any admin once they believe the editor is listening (or discussing, or has convinced you they understand and are willing/able to comply with policy)". I do understand that this isn't well-understood by non-admins, and that "indef" feels like "forever". I wish it were better understood by editors. Indef is actually kinder. Valereee (talk) 21:42, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Support topic ban from DYK. With apologies to Levivich, if the best argument for not tbanning Andy from DYK is that he hasn't commented there in the the last two days, that seems like a good argument for a topic ban. For me, the question is whether Andy can still contribute without attacking other editors. It seems settled that he can't engage at DYK. Mackensen (talk) 19:31, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose - Way over the top based on evidence provided. Abstain regarding DYK tban. I didn't find Andy's arguments about Andrew Tate persuasive in the most recent go-around, and don't find other people's arguments persuasive this time (if you don't think evidence from ten years ago is relevant, you have the ability to just ignore it or note as much and move on -- it looks like it only sprawled into something counterproductive because of the back-and-forth after the old evidence was presented). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 19:49, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose both I don't see any new issue, and the rest is a re-do of the last ANI thread. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 19:56, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  You realize Andy opened this "re-do"? Valereee (talk) 21:28, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Is Andy suggesting these sanctions? If not then no he did not open this re-do. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 21:47, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  It's fairly commonly understood that when you bring something here, your own behavior is also going to be looked at. I hate the concept of boomerang, FWIW. But don't try to say this is a re-do of the last ANI thread. Andy brought this here. Valereee (talk) 21:54, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  But..... he did not suggest these sanctions which are a redo of the last ANI. Whether it's this thread or just this boomerang part is just splitting hairs. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 21:58, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  He brought the last one(? can't keep up) here too. When someone brings things here, they're going to end up with their own actions looked at. That's just unfortunately part of the process.

  Seriously all Andy needs to do is acknowledge their behavior was problematic, apologize, and promise never to do it again. That would completely be good enough for me and probably 99% of people here. Just say it, Andy: "I was wrong to call people halfwits, morons, and idiots. I apologize, and I won't do it again." Just say it. It's not really a huge ask. Valereee (talk) 22:05, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Yes I understand what a BOOMERANG is, but technicalities don't change my point. I also understand that you would like to see something done, as does everyone that has stated their opposition. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:12, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I actually don't want to see anything done. That's actually the last thing I want in this kind of situation with a productive, useful editor who is exhibiting disruptive behavior. What I want is for Andy to recognize the counterproductiveness of his strategy and change it. Only if he refuses do I think something needs to be done. Valereee (talk) 22:15, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Yes you have said so in your reply to his comment (I have read the thread), it doesn't relate to my point. Personally ATG could absolutely do with dialing down the grumpiness from 11, but I don't see anything here that wasn't in the last very recent thread (or the thread about that thread being closed) and continuing to press the same point isn't productive. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  He. Brought. This. Here. If you think it wasn't worth bringing here, it's disruptive. Valereee (talk) 22:32, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  (Note the comment above was only He. Brought. This. Here. when I posted this reply.) To be polite this back and forth obviously no longer has any worth. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:35, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Please don't change you comment after it has been replied to.(This has been explained as an edit conflict, so I've struck my request.)
  It wasn't disruptive to bring this here as ATG's post about the DYK that was pulled was valid and shouldn't have been hatted, yes it was old but it still fits the criteria.
  What has come of bringing it here is a rehash of the recently closed ANI thread, who brought it here in no way changes that fact. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:49, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Taking this to user talk. Valereee (talk) 22:57, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose Too severe. Maybe a temporary block or temporary restriction as a wake-up call. Something needs to change. And there are other reasons for block besides just preventative and punitive. North8000 (talk) 20:00, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support (temporary?) T-ban I think I was pretty clear in my comment above, I opposed the last 24h block on the grounds that it wouldn't prevent anything, only to be confronted by another ANI case less than 24 hours later. Even some of the opposes here acnowledge that his behaviour is currently disruptive at DYK. I think some kind of timeout from that topic area is in order here. I hope a Tban appealable at the earliest in a couple months will achieve that. An indef is obviously excessive here. --Licks-rocks (talk) 20:52, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Response from AndyTheGrump. If the community considers it necessary to topic-ban me from DYK for submitting evidence of clear and unambiguous violations of WP:BLP policy in regard to DYK content in a thread that asked for evidence on the same subject, and then objecting when attempts were made to remove such evidence, then so be it. While I have in the past considered it my moral duty to draw attention to incidents such as the one where unconvicted individuals (easily identified from the article linked in the proposed DYK) were asserted as fact, in Wikipedia voice, to have 'cooked in a curry' an individual who has never actually been confirmed to be dead, never mind been murdered and disposed of in such a manner, I am certainly under no obligation to raise such issues here. I just hope that there will now be enough uninvolved contributors paying attention to proposed and actual DYK content to prevent such things happening again. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:49, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Andy, I hope there will be, too. And I hope they can do it without calling anyone a halfwit, moron, or idiot. You know, it would probably go a really long way here if you'd just say something like "I was wrong to call anyone a halfwit, moron, or idiot. I sincerely apologize, and I commit to never doing that again."Valereee (talk) 21:18, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Unless you have anything new to say here, please just get over it. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 22:26, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Ugh. I really feel like I would like to stop responding here, but this makes me think I need to. Why should we not deal with namecalling? Valereee (talk) 22:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Genuinely, I don't think responding to every single person in this thread is a good thing to do. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 22:33, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I agree. I'm responding where I see someone misinterpreting policy, and when they respond to me, I'm again responding. It sucks. Valereee (talk) 22:36, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I get it. Sadly, while I agree with you that Andy has been disruptive and that an (appealable) topic ban should be a good thing, it's too easy to get stuck in these back-and-forths about policy, that ultimately lead to more heat than light. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 22:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Because I suggested you get over it, you think you need to keep responding to most of the opposes here? The reason why we might not deal with someone who's called others an idiot, in certain circumstances, is being there is no consensus to do so (see previous discussion). It might be because despite the poor choice of words, the decision to approve that DYK, with that hook, with clear overwhelming objections, was clearly idiotic (the decision was very stupid). Even if the person who suggested the hook (you) or the person who approved it isn't an idiot. I think many people saw the personal attack of "idiot" and translated it to "idiotic", even if for those who are called an idiot it doesn't "hurt" any less. Sometimes it's also better to call out idiotic behaviour, even if done so in an awful manner. That's just my take of the situation at least, I hope you can accept that criticism. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 22:43, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  That's junk logic. It's the kind of argument that makes me want to support sanctions, just to rebut this way of thinking. I won't do that, though, but I will speak up to say: no, nope, no. We can say something is a BLPvio without calling editors idiots, morons, halfwits, etc. There is no way in which the heading of that ANI thread was justified, excusable, understandable, or otherwise okay. Levivich (talk) 22:55, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I'm pretty convinced ATG wasn't capable at the time of bringing it up in a civil manner (potential insult alert), not that this justifies his insults. I understood his anger, even if I don't find it particularly excusable. Maybe he will be able to again raise issues in a civil manner, in the future, like he has in the past. If not, then he'll end up getting banned. Overall I don't see petty name calling as being any worse than the vandals and disruptive editors that get warned before getting blocked, in fact I find it much less offensive personally. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 23:35, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose both I'm not impressed with Andy's decision to open this thread, but as Levivich noted the disruption at DYK is not ongoing. While Andy should do a better of job of assuming good faith on the part of DYK regulars, I believe we are too hasty to talk of bans these days. The indef block proposal is well out-of-order. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 21:19, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  He opened this two days ago. His response above shows zero indication he recognizes his personal attacks are an issue at all in dealing with his concerns about DYK. How is this not ongoing? Valereee (talk) 21:21, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  LEPRICAVARK clearly referenced that the disruption at DYK isn't ongoing, nothing else. Clearly this discussion is still ongoing, because users such as yourself expect an apology, which you're almost certainly not going to get. Maybe give the badger a rest? CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 22:23, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I hate to keep answering here, but because you asked...why should we not expect an apology, @CommunityNotesContributor? I mean, we got called names. Why is an apology something we shouldn't expect? It's a pretty minor request. Valereee (talk) 22:28, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  The exact same reason as my previous wikilink for you. Because no one is obligated to satisfy you. In summary; you're not entitled to an apology, even if you deserve one. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 22:47, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Taking to user talk. Valereee (talk) 23:00, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose I would have supported this the day ATG posted that thread, but now it's stale and there has been no further offense that I'm aware of. I do support doing it right away the next time it happens, if it does happen again. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:37, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I definitely support giving some sort of final warning to put ATG on notice. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:10, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  For reference sake see BLP incivility warning that was given. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 01:13, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• oppose This isn't timely, and besides, the "shooting the messenger" angle on this has dominated the thread from the start. When Wikipediocracy can sustain a 19 page thread consisting mostly of untrue DYK hooks, it's obvious that the process is failing, and I say this as someone who, back in the day, submitted several dozen DYKs, so it's not as though I haven't been there. The hook in question was baldly pulled out of context, and should never have been promoted; whether or not one wants to call this "idiocy", seizing on AtG's choice of derogation plainly turned onto a way of ducking the issue that this hook and many others should have been caught and kept off the front page. I am not bloody-minded enough lacking in the kind of emotional emotional energy and the time to deal with DYK's problems, but they are obvious, and it is apparently fortunate that those who complain eventually lose their tempers over the frustration of dealing with the various enablers, lest something be done about it. Mangoe (talk) 23:38, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  Christ on a cracker, Mangoe, would you get the facts straight. Levivich (talk) 00:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose At the top of this page it says, "include diffs demonstrating the problem." Instead, the proposer opened this thread by saying, "As multiple editors have observed in this and a prior thread, AndyTheGrump's violations of Wikipedia policies on civility and his ongoing disruptive behavior are part of a long-term and intractable pattern which is unlikely to improve."

The lack of information in the proposal means that only editors familiar with whatever lead to this will know what the issues are. This discourages uninvolved editors from commenting which can adversely affect the outcome.

TFD (talk) 23:04, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose. The punishment seems disproportionate to the offense, though it may become proportionate later if the behavior continues. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 23:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Comment: Close reading of this thread reveals a link Levivich provided: Special:Diff/1223676400. See also the exchange beteen Andy and ScottishFinnishRadish on Andy's talk page here. The warning has been placed and logged, and Andy has acknowledged it. As such I think this entire thread is moot and I oppose further sanctions (including sanctions dependent on whether an apology is given). ---Sluzzelin talk 01:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  The warning (on 13 May) was for the previous incident, while this thread is about more recent behavior (more specifically, the thread that Andy opened on 15 May). Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 13:03, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose indef. Was his first logged warning for incivility this week? Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 03:34, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  No, I believe he's had a number of temp bans before. wound theology◈ 13:40, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose indef - I do not see any argument that AndyTheGrump is a net negative for the building of an encyclopedia. He has both positive and negative impact on DYK, by objecting to BLP violations, and by objecting to BLP violations uncivilly. He has both positive and negative impact on normal editing, by building the encylopedia, and by being uncivil. I don't see an argument that the negative outweighs the positive. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:49, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Robert McClenon the thing about the "net negative" analysis is that assumes that the editor in question is more important than the editors on the receiving end of the negative behavior. Put into words it seems less noble: "AndyTheGrump is more important than Valeree, so they'll just have to deal with his behavior, sorry." Inevitably, this is also a situation where the editor could modify their behavior to remove the negative aspect, but won't, which leaves this: "We think what AndyTheGrump does is more important than treating Valeree with respect, sorry." Note that the "sorry" isn't actually an apology, but more of a shrug of the shoulders, as though there's nothing to be done. Mackensen (talk) 12:35, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  User:Mackensen - No. I didn't say or mean that, but that does imply that I wasn't clear in what I was weighing against what. It appears that you are saying that the harm that Andy does by being uncivil to other editors outweighs the benefit to the encyclopedia, and we can disagree civilly (since neither you nor I are editors who have a civility problem.) I never meant it to be a matter of weighing editors against other editors, but of saying that ATG has a beneficial effect on the content of DYK and of normal editing. I would also add that I am less worried about treating an established editor like Valereee with the respect that she deserves, and has from the rest of the community, than about treating a new but useful editor with the respect that is due to any human. If you are saying that he does more harm by being disrespectful than the benefit of his editing, then we at least know what we disagree about. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:00, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  I never meant it to be a matter of weighing editors against other editors I think this is the nub of our disagreement. An editor's negative contributions don't take place in a vacuum, and they aren't borne by the encyclopedia writ large, but by individual editors. Sometimes those are experienced editors, sometimes not. Whether you mean to or not, I think if you adopt the net-positive/net-negative framework you're choosing one editor over another. Mackensen (talk) 17:08, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  Also, I didn't make a statement about a topic-ban from DYK, and I am still not making a statement about that, so I don't think that I am disagreeing with User:Valereee. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  FTR, again: I really don't care that Andy called me an idiot. I'm sure I'm often an idiot in multiple ways. What I want is for him to stop calling people idiots, period. That literally is all I care about. If he'd just say, "I will henceforth stop namecalling", I'd be happy to move along. Valereee (talk) 17:15, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  Having seen the inflammatory heading in which ATG started this discussion, before he changed the inflammatory heading, I have stricken my Oppose, because I can see the argument that he is a net negative. I have not !voted on an indef block or a topic-ban at this time. I probably won't vote in this section, because the combination of !votes on indef and !votes on DYK ban will confuse almost any closer as it is. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:47, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

• Support non-indef ban and perhaps a topic ban based on the above. Warnings clearly aren't doing the trick. wound theology◈ 13:46, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
• This thread is aimed at banning or blocking ATG because he is being perceived as being disruptive on the discussion about DYK - the disruption appears to be complaining here about his points being removed from that discussion because they referred to events that were too old. I strongly hope that is isn't what was intended by anyone, but it looks like that this is an attempt to shut down opposition to the status quo. This is not a good look for Wikipedia and does encourage others to take part in the discussion.Nigel Ish (talk) 17:13, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  No, this not an attempt to shut down opposition to the status quo. The way we know this is that the person who was reported here by Andy agrees with Andy about problems with the status quo, as do many of the people supporting sanctions. Levivich (talk) 17:25, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• Prefer T-ban from DYK but block if necessary. The unapologetic and ongoing personal attacks, battleground behavior, and disruption, are the problem. We shouldn't censor the important underlying discussion of DYK vs BLP but AndyTheGrump is doing a great job of effectively doing that himself by making it all about his grumpyness instead. Getting him away from the issue is the first step in shedding light instead of heat on the issue. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:03, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose. An indef is a silly overreaction, and a TBAN doesn't seem reasonable either -- where is the long-term and/or ongoing disruption there? Andy is kind of an asshole about perceived incompetence in general, but the community has repeatedly concluded, including in an earlier 24-hr block proposal, that his behavior doesn't rise to the level of offense or volume to necessitate a block. So if his comments aren't "bad enough" for an acute block, and there isn't a sustained pattern of harassing DYK in particular, I don't see how a TBAN benefits the project. JoelleJay (talk) 20:58, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support indef block also fine with DYK topic ban Like my oppose in the last 24 hour block proposal, there's no evidence that the editor is going to change how they treat their fellow editors here. --Lenticel ^(talk) 01:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
• Comment: to make everybody happy, I support a three months block from DYK. tgeorgescu (talk) 03:22, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

A Contrarian Thought: Send to ArbCom

I think that we are looking at two overlapping issues involving conduct that the community is unable to resolve. The first is the conduct of User:AndyTheGrump, and the second is conduct and interactions at Did You Know. I am aware that some editors probably think that we are about to resolve these issues, that this thread is about to be the last thread, and that if repeating oneself four times hasn't been persuasive, repeating oneself six times definitely will either persuade or exhaust others.

I am aware that I am often in a minority in thinking that such recurrent issues should be referred by the community to ArbCom, and in thinking that ArbCom should accept such recurrent issues on referral by the community. I am also aware that in modern times, as opposed to the twenty-oughts, ArbCom normally does not accept cases about individual users, which is one reason why there is the concept of unblockables, who are misnamed, because they are actually editors who are often blocked and often unblocked, and are not banned. Well, AndyTheGrump has actually avoided being blocked for a decade, and so maybe really is unblockable. In any case, the community has not resolved the issue of this editor. It also appears that the issues about Andy at DYK may be the tip of the iceberg of issues at DYK.

I will throw in an observation that the arguments offered in the above thread about whether the biographies of living persons policy trumps or is trumped by the civility policy are erroneous. One is a content policy, and the other one is a conduct policy, and both should be and can be non-negotiable. But if a conflict between these policies is perceived, it may be a symptom of something that is wrong. I would suggest that what is wrong is using biographies of inherently controversial living persons to be used in Did You Know, but that is only my opinion. If a case is opened by ArbCom, ArbCom should state as principles that the biographies of living persons policy is non-negotiable, and that civility is the fourth pillar of Wikipedia, because those principles apparently need to be restated.

It is my opinion that the issues of interactions at Did You Know and the conduct of AndyTheGrump are not being resolved by the community and should be addressed by ArbCom. I don't expect consensus on my opinion. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:18, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

It probably isn't in my best interests to comment on whether my issues with civility (Yes, I know I have them, I have acknowledged the fact) merit an ArbCom case. As for whether ArbCom is the appropriate venue for tackling some of the ongoing issues with DYK content, with the flaws in process that creates said content, and perhaps with the behaviour of some contributors there, I suspect most people will suggest that those involved should be given a chance to tackle the problems themselves first. Preferably taking input from the broader community, which has sometimes appeared reluctant in the past to get involved, but clearly ought to. If, however, ArbCom is to become involved, I would strongly argue that it needs to look into it in its entirety, starting from no premise beyond that there have been recurring issues with content of all kinds, and that the appropriate way to proceed is to ask for evidence first, in an open-ended manner, and only then to attempt a resolution. Attempts to frame problems narrowly in advance tend, even if done with good intent, to mask deeper underlying causes, making a permanent resolution impossible. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:43, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Agree with devolving to ArbCom. These discussions regarding DYK are getting nowhere. There is lack of clarity over how BLP policy interacts with DYK, if it does at all, with the ambiguous wording: "Hooks that unduly focus on negative aspects of living persons should be avoided" being the biggest problem and interpreted in multiple different ways from users at DYK. One interpretation is that if the negativity is due, then hooks can be negative, and therefore can "override" BLP policy. The other is that negative BLP hooks shouldn't be used, regardless of being due, or otherwise controversial figures shouldn't be featured at DYK at all (with a neutral/positive hook). Clarity needed. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 18:50, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Comment. Isn't this jumping the gun? I would think the RFC that is currently being constructed would directly address many of the problems being raised here, and would provide for a much wider range of community participation and comment to solve these issues. It would be in the community's best interest to allow for wide community comment and participation rather then to limit the investigation to a small ArbCom panel. I would say we give the RFC a chance to do its work before determining whether going down the ArbCom path is necessary.4meter4 (talk) 19:02, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

There is no appetite for a restriction on ATG based on multiple discussions. Taking this to the next forum after the community votes seems like a forum shop. And about DYK: if you want the editors to get the message and work on tightening up reviews, BLP issues and other DYK related criteria... that is happening right now. RM, I do not think arbcom is the place for this. Nobody is saying what you have said lack of clarity over how BLP policy interacts with DYK, if it does at all. See our DYKCRIT and BLPHOOK guides.

There are issues with - as I said in the Tate discussion... "the politics of whomever happens to be editing". One administrator in the discussion rejected the premise of that statement and so did other editors. It felt like politics because as I said in the discussion, Tate is a sort of anti-woke figure. Many editors were announcing their dislike of Tate. An admin said we had to protect children. See for example, Theleekycauldron (TLC) - most would agree they are a DYK expert, but they decided to push very hard for a negative hook as did many other's who called for Tate to be "taken down". At the time I pushed back as did a few other editors, but we were outnumbered, Honestly it was many editors including TLC and most of them are MIA from this discussion and others. I sarcastically asked TLC if they were playing a Jedi Mind Trick when they said a "neutral" hook would actually be unduly positive.

It felt very bizarre to be in that discussion and have seasoned editors demanding negative hooks about a blp against our very clear DYK guidelines. The hook that was run, while negative, was Tate's own words and it was written by an Arb member. An admin added it to the nomination so we went with it. Kudos to EpicGenius who wrote a good neutral hook that was not added to the nomination. If you have not read the discussion yet, please do!. It is a must read if you want to see how the sausage is made. Lightburst (talk) 20:40, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I checked your DYKCRIT and BLPHOOK guides. So negative hooks can be run, based on DYKBLP then right? Why was there even an issue in the first place, can you address that question? CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 00:48, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

• ArbCom would likely only rule on editor conduct. I'd be very surprised if they did anything about the DYK process itself. That kind of change probably has to come from the community, and the RFC that is in the process of forming seems like an ideal place to do it. The only reason to request an ArbCom case now instead of after the RFC would be if we think that there are conduct issues at DYK so severely entrenched that even the RFC would not be able to stop them. I'm not quite sure we're there yet. Pinguinn 🐧 03:12, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

  User:Pinguinn - I agree that ArbCom is unlikely to rule on the DYK process. I have not studied the DYK process, but it is my non-expert opinion that the process is broken partly because of underlying conduct issues. For that reason I am pessimistic that a viable DYK reform RFC will be launched in the next few weeks. I know that other editors are more optimistic than I am, so that efforts at a community solution will continue. If an RFC is assembled and launched, I will be glad to see it run. If the RFC development process bogs down, I will see that as further evidence that ArbCom investigation is needed. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:03, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

• I don't think ARBCOM will want to rule on the questions at hand regarding DYK. How NPOV, BLP, and really short-form entries on the Main Page (the same issues apply to ITN) interact is a community matter. If there are issues in the actions of editors besides ATG, they have not really been fully discussed by the community. CMD (talk) 04:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Kingsif

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• Kingsif (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Follow my dreams (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This user has reverted edits I made to Follow my dreams on the basis that they are not referenced or unsourced. At no time have I removed any references or added any information that is not in these sources. I have simply specified that this work was modified in 2023. Also on the Talk:Follow my dreams I made a proposal to make two separate pages since the modified 2023 work is very different from the 2022 original work and I have also made an explanation to WikiProject:Arts explaining the problem. This user is constantly threatening to block me as well as instructing other users to do so, as can be seen on the Talk:FC Barcelona Femení and my Talk page. According to him, I make only vandalic edits. This user is making me feel that I am not capable of contributing to any page to this shared project. These are all arrogant comments. As a new user I don't think this is a pleasant situation. Need help. Blow.ofmind78 (talk) 19:52, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Blow.ofmind78 when you report editors here you need to notify them on their talk page as it explains at the top of this page. I've done that for you. Shaws username . talk . 21:25, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply and help Shaws username, I didn't know how to proceed correctly. Just wanted to point out the problem and if anyone could help to resolve it. Blow.ofmind78 (talk) 21:46, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

OP blocked indefinitely for disruptive editing. I'll look into this a little more. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:01, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks - Blow.ofmind78 now confirmed to be sock of a disruptive agenda account, not a shock based on their behaviour. Kingsif (talk) 21:09, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

You made changes based on your opinion about the subject, even though sources (including the artist himself) said otherwise. This, after you had been told multiple times by multiple users to learn how sourcing works.

And reporting someone for reverting - with reasonable explanation - your unsourced edits is just trying to bully your own way. Kingsif (talk) 21:02, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Yasuke is a complete dumpster fire

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Personal attacks flying left and right, vaguely racist comments, all-caps shouting, ... I suggested WP:DRN at first but I'm realizing this is far from sufficient and the behavioral problems alone mean someone should definitely take a look at the page. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 15:51, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• Ivanvector, what in god's name is going on on that page? And who made the racist comments, User:Chaotic Enby? I have a hard time sifting through the disorganized and verbose comments by these new users. And what am I doing here? Drmies (talk) 16:05, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Sorry for the ping, I tried to notify everyone who commented on the talk page and accidentally also notified a few people (including you) whose comments were much older than today's drama, as the threads were often all mixed up. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 16:06, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  No idea, I saw someone asking a question about it on I think Yamla's talk page and went to look. Evidently Yasuke is featured in a recently announced video game and <insert typical Gamergate bullshit>. Favonian protected the article a little while ago, and I've been working through the threads on the talk page responding to edit requests, removing personal attacks, and have blocked a few IPs. Probably could use more eyes (since I'm about to go do something else) but it does seem to be more or less under control. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:10, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks a lot! Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 16:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  WakandaScholar could probably do with a block as a troll/WP:NOTHERE, noting the edit that got blocked by the edit filter. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 16:37, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Just finished pinging everyone involved, hope I didn't mess up too much. Comments like this one (alluding to a racist dogwhistle), and the dozens of removed personal attacks that litter the conversation. I'm honestly having a hard time following too, so that's why I hoped someone more experienced could take a look. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 16:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  The edit I was repeatedly removing yesterday was originally made on 15:21, 15 May 2024, pretty obviously done by (Personal attack removed) people upset at the new Assassin's Creed video game featuring Yasuke as one of its protagonists. The fact that I wasn't even adding stuff explicitly referring to Yasuke as a samurai despite the consensus from multiple historians that he was one, but merely removing a biased statement claiming that he explicitly was not one and that any categorization of him as a samurai is a myth I think speaks to the (Personal attack removed) that were invested in diminishing the historical of a black person in Japanese history.

  Like even Japanese documentaries refer to Yasuke as a samurai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yasuke#Japanese_Documentaries/TV_Series_that_talk_about_him_being_Samurai Theozilla (talk) 16:39, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Also thank you to Ivanvector for finally removing the original unnecessary addition that was added At 15:21, 15 May 2024‎, also I would personally recommend keeping the Yasuke page locked for more than three days. Theozilla (talk) 16:45, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Theozilla: while we appreciate your contributions, please familiarize yourself with our edit warring policy. Repeatedly restoring any edit is not allowed, even if you think you are right. The policy explains how you should respond if you find yourself in an edit war. Also, please find a way to express these sentiments without the personal attacks. We normally don't protect pages for any longer than needed to resolve the immediate conflict, but there are lots of admins watching the article now. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 17:35, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  I wasn't "restoring" an edit though? I was doing the opposite, i.e. removing an new unnecessarily added edit (though yeah, it still definitely devolved into an edit war). And I don't believe I personally attacked any other users. Unless noting the fact that the Assassin's Creed video game reveal is what attracted racist reactionaries to the Yasuke article somehow qualifies as a personal attack. Theozilla (talk) 17:48, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Yes, calling someone or a group of people "racist reactionaries" is a personal attack. You can say things like "this edit should be removed because it does not accurately reflect the sources cited", or even "because the source cited promotes a racist point of view" although you should support that with evidence. You can't say things like "this edit should be removed because it was added by someone with a political agenda". I hope the difference is obvious, but the policy summarizes: "comment on content, not contributors". Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:00, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Okay, but I was never directly calling a specific person or group "racist reactionaries", I was stating that racist reactionaries got attracted to the Yasuke article, which seems pretty undeniable as even Chaotıċ Enby noted how there was racist comments abounding in the Talk section or comments in the edit history. Theozilla (talk) 18:10, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Oof, yeah that IP was definitely dogwhistling there. Might be time to semi-protect the Talk page. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 16:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  HandThatFeeds, it was semi’d a little while ago by Drmies. Hopefully everything will calm down now. Yoshi24517 (mobile) (talk) (Very Busy) 16:55, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Oh thank goodness. That was probably the messiest talk page I've ever seen. Glad something was done eventually. Zinderboff(talk) 18:51, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

  Hello and thank you for the ping. I am a Japanese and was concerned about the discussion regarding the article and previously commented on the talk page.

  I feel that there is a very western-centric narrative being pushed on the page, by users such as Theozilla and Mmsnjd, that edits regarding Yasuke not being a samurai are by racists. By doing so the concern of Japanese people, who know more about this topic given how it is about Japanese history, are being silenced by western people who seem to be trying to push an agenda.

  Yasuke is sometimes depicted as samurai in fiction, because it is more fun to do so. He is sometimes called samurai by internet articles, because ignorant people spread false information. But all Japanese historical records show that he was not samurai. Why should badly-written internet articles by Americans who did not do research and do not cite reliable sources be taken as fact over real Japanese historical records in a topic regarding Japanese history? This in itself feels extremely racist to me.

  Furthermore, Theozilla says that this is racist backlash because it happened in response to the announcement of a video game. This is nonsense. This announcement brought attention to the topic, so of course people would discuss it. I have no interest in this video game, but I am concerned with non-Japanese people appropriating Japanese culture and warping Japanese history.

  The fact that these users are attacking anyone who does not share their point of view as racists shows that they have no impartiality and I believe that, if possible, they should be removed from editing the article.

  Thank you.

  27.84.15.217 (talk) 00:04, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I do not claim to speak to Admins, but no, WP:NOR, and WP:PA, moreover, your fundamental thesis is incorrect, as there does exist japanese sourcing to indicate the at minimum possibility that the article's subject was infact either a samurai or conferred a similar social status. There is apparently little controversy to apply the title of retainer, a title most often given to samurai. 2601:190:402:BFA0:94B4:D71D:BECD:7695 (talk) 05:54, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I was tagged mistakenly, but I'm glad to know the page's long-term issues are finally getting some daylight. natemup (talk) 17:07, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• Agreed that the Talk:Yasuke page is a bit of a mess.

I do take issue with the statement above that there is any "consensus from multiple historians that he [Yasuke] was one [a samurai]". From what I've read so far, I see no such consensus among historians, and instead I see a preponderance of pop-culture publications that describe Yasuke using the word "samurai", but without any clear sources, and without defining how they are using the word "samurai".

As detailed in older threads at Talk:Yasuke, and as currently described over at Samurai#Terminology, "samurai" referred historically to a hereditary social class of Japanese nobility, something one could be born into or marry into. Meanwhile, "bushi" referred historically to something more like a job or profession as a soldier / warrior, regardless of family connection. There were samurai who served as bushi, and there were non-samurai who also served as bushi. These are two distinct categories.

There appears to be a lot of confusion in English-language texts, especially outside of academia, where "samurai" is used with a sense more like "any warrior in pre-modern Japan", which is decidedly not what "samurai" was used to mean historically. For any source describing Yasuke as samurai, we need to be clear (both in our understanding, and in how we edit the article) about how that source is using the word "samurai". ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 19:08, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

However, so far the strategy has been for POV editors to just delete all references to him being a samurai in any sense of the word, leaving the article somewhat pointless in its focus. natemup (talk) 19:16, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

@Natemup — Why would omission of the word "samurai" make the [[Yasuke]] article "somewhat pointless"? I'm afraid I don't follow. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 19:25, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

It seems that the entirety of his significance, as evidenced by the original version of the article, was that he was a samurai, in at least some sense. If in fact he was just, as the article states now, "a man of African origin" who served a Japanese ruler, it's easily arguable that there is little warrant for a Wikipedia article on him at all. (Save for his now ubiquitous pop-culture presence as—you guessed it—a Black samurai). natemup (talk) 19:34, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

I would agree that Yasuke is potentially less historically significant as a non-samurai. Given the pop-culture interest, I think Yasuke as a topic is probably noteworthy enough to merit an article, not least to portray the actual historical picture, as opposed to the romanticized vision of an active warrior. If I've understood things correctly, we only have historical evidence that Yasuke fought in the Honnō-ji Incident and its immediate aftermath, which is quite different from the armored and fully armed popular image. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 19:51, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Yasuke was not a samurai in any sense by Japanese standards. I feel that claims that he was are attempts at historical revisionism by western people who are purposely ignoring Japanese historical records. The Yasuke discussion has a lot of such people who argue what samurai means, even though it is clearly defined. Western people trying to warp the definitions of Japanese words and culture to fit their own feelings feels extremely racist to me. 27.84.15.217 (talk) 00:32, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

That's nice. The article should reflect the sources, however, per Wikipedia policy. Currently, it does not (and may be one of the single worst examples of such on the entire site). natemup (talk) 05:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

While this IP does show up as resolving to japanese, I do think it is worth making clear that despite these claims of racism in following vetted research, WP:NOR applies and that claims that pre May-15 versions of the article that described the subject of the samurai as some western invented myth are flatly untrue. The japanese article calls him a samurai and many japanese sources, both primary and secondary, give credence to accounts that grant cultural status similar to if not exactly that of a samurai, as has been discussed and cited numerous times here and elsewhere. 2601:190:402:BFA0:94B4:D71D:BECD:7695 (talk) 05:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

This user's statements are false or intentionally misleading. There is no historical sources that state Yasuke is a samurai. There are Japanese theories and fiction that state Yasuke is a samurai but it is generally not accepted as historically accurate. This user is applying original research and using pop culture and non-academic entertainment internet articles as proof that Yasuke has "cultural status similar to a samurai" while arguing against actual facts. The fact is there are no historical Japanese sources that definitively state that Yasuke is a samurai, and rather the wording used regarding his serving as a servant to Nobunaga would suggest otherwise, which is why he is considered to historically not be a samurai. If a Japanese news article about an anime calls him a samurai, it is because the anime shows him as a samurai and it is more catchy to call him samurai in the title to gain attention, rather than not. It is not a western invention, but many westerners purposely warp these inaccurate depictions. Furthermore I am very disgusted by this statement "While this IP does show up as resolving to japanese" for it feels like racist gaslighting where this user is trying to cast doubt on my ethnicity. WP:NOR and WP:PA 27.84.15.217 (talk) 09:01, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Furthermore I wish to point out that even this user says "similar to a samurai" meaning not a samurai. 27.84.15.217 (talk) 09:05, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

That talk page clearly needs that template warning people about how it's bad if someone told them to come here. I suggest leaving the semi protection on for at least a month until some of the more persistent SPAs get tired of arguing and either leave or get blocked. Jtrainor (talk) 00:21, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Note: As some people are discussing article content in this thread, I'd like to remind everyone that ANI is for discussing behavioural problems, not just content disputes. In the interest of not getting too far off-track in this thread, I would like to direct everyone interested in discussing Yasuke himself to head back to Talk:Yasuke and follow content dispute guidelines from there. There is clearly a legitimate discussion to be had regarding Yasuke's status within Japanese society during his life, but we're here at ANI to discuss the behavioural issues at Talk:Yasuke, not to debate the content of the Yasuke article :P

Moving back to the main topic of this thread, the discussion on the talk page seems to have calmed down since it was semi-protected, but I am a bit concerned that trouble will continue to plague it, either by disruptive users waiting for autoconfirmation or when the protection period ends.

Worth noting that an online gaming news publication by the name of Niche Gamer has covered the "controversy" that seems to have brought attention to the Yasuke article[120]. I'm not sure if a media outlet covering this constitutes as canvassing (though I imagine this has also circulated on sections of social media in a way that likely would be considered canvassing), but I must note that Niche Gamer appears to have a particular political slant and seems to have played a role in drawing WP:NOTHERE users and IPs to the discussion. In particular, I have noticed that several of the IPs and users involved in discussion of the talk page are recently created accounts or IPs with few or no other contributions, some of which consist solely of involvement in discussions on the talk pages of other "gamer culture war" type topics (such as Sweet Baby Inc). This indicates to me that some individuals have come to the Yasuke article purely in the interest of pushing their particular views, not in the interest of making the article more historically accurate. I see that some of the more disruptive accounts have already been dealt with, but I believe further scrutiny of new accounts and IPs involved in this talk page is in order - some appear to be sockpuppets, others are simply NOTHERE. I won't point out the specific accounts I have concerns about in this comment, but if any admins think my concerns are warranted I am happy to discuss further.

Many thanks to the editors who stepped in to try to control this dumpster fire - hopefully my concerns are misplaced and all further discussion on this talk page will be respectful and evidence based :) Ethmostigmus (talk) 04:43, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

The trouble is also spilling over into the Talk:List of foreign-born samurai in Japan with some edit warring and not so subtle trolling if someone can take a look. Yvan Part (talk) 13:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Kind of a side note but this does create a weird scenario where the article/talk page is very clearly something that would normally fall under the auspices of Gamergate related sanctions; but does not clearly fall under the WP:GENSEX sanctions.⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 19:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

The end of the first paragraph of the motions in WP:GENSEX states For the avoidance of doubt, GamerGate is considered a gender-related dispute or controversy for the purposes of this remedy so it would fall under WP:GENSEX, even though this incident has nothing to do with gender or sexuality. I do think it was a mistake to merge Gamergate into WP:GENSEX though, as gamergate has grown to encompasses all kinds of stuff (race, religion, politics...) and as a result the warning templates and notices and so forth don't really make a lot of sense in some situations. We saw this a few months ago with all the disruption around Sweet Baby Inc. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 20:38, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think it's that simple. My plain reading of that line is that is saying that the original GamerGate controversy is considered a gender-related dispute, which was true; however that does not mean that *all* GamerGate-related (or inspired) controversies are considered gender-related. Those that are not, could quite easily and reasonably be read to *not* be independently covered by WP:GENSEX. Regardless, it's at the very least an area of ambiguity.⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 03:08, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

The funny thing about all of this is that the Japanese Wikipedia article on Yasuke very clearly defines him as a samurai, how that came about, and what that meant for the period. With proper references and everything. So all the claims of "Japan doesn't consider him a samurai" is nonsense on its face, without even considering the massive amount of Japanese cultural and media depictions of Yasuke going back decades considering him a samurai. But hey, Gamergate bigots are gonna bigot. Silverseren^C 01:31, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

This seems pretty bad faith given that there are legitimate objections, and not all the people making them are new/IP users. I've been looking on scholar, and basically none of the scholarly sources by authors specialising on Japanese history explicitly call him a samurai (e.g. [121]), the exact objections Eiríkr Útlendi made above. Exaggerated portrayals long after his life do not make one a samurai either. Hemiauchenia (talk) 02:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

The objections are by people who very blatantly don't know what they're talking about and are at odds with numerous Japanese historians that have already spoken up and confirmed that Yasuke was a samurai (resulting in aforementioned Gamergaters then harassing the historians for saying that). There's even a response over on AskHistorians with a detailed answer specifically using the Shinchō Kōki as a source. I notice that there's also someone named EirikrUtlendi over there in that very thread very poorly arguing against the clearly more educated person on the topic. Our EirikrUtlendi will have to let us know if that is indeed them or someone else with their username. Silverseren^C 03:20, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Having seen that thread already, I was just about to link it here. (You saved me a trip! :D) Loki (talk) 03:24, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

So your "reliable source" is a Reddit thread by an anonymous user with no clear subject matter expertise, basing their claim on their own interpretation of primary sources in a language that you do not understand? I'm not necessarily saying they're wrong,

but I would want verification by someone fluent in Japanese. I'll let @Eirikr:'s elaborate on their arguments. Reddit upvotes/downvotes do not necessarily indicate the intellectual merit of the posts. It seems to me that a lot of this is mostly about the vague way "samurai" is used in English (and probably why the term is avoided in scholarly literature about Yasuke) an is therefore to a degree a semantic dispute Hemiauchenia (talk) 04:51, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't know if you are familiar with r/askhistorians, but it and answerers are not anonymous randos but infact actual vetted historians who have verified with forum admins their expertise. In this case the user is listed as an expert in Sengoku Japan, and if you bothered to read it you would know it actually cites japanese sources 2601:190:402:BFA0:94B4:D71D:BECD:7695 (talk) 05:25, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

This has been the issue for some time now. The English article previously reflected this scholarly consensus, but a few users (and one in particular) deleted a bunch of content and effectively blocked effective corrections throughout 2021, IIRC. I'm hoping it will finally get resolved. natemup (talk) 05:35, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

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WP:FRINGE and POV pushing on Talk:Attempted assassination of Robert Fico

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85.67.101.104 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has done nothing but make POV, WP:FRINGE and WP:NOTHERE arguments based on personal biases and utter misinformation on Talk:Attempted assassination of Robert Fico, including this edit: [[122]]. Borgenland (talk) 16:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• Sure, but you've done nothing to explain to the editor what they're doing wrong. I warned them. Drmies (talk) 16:07, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Apologies. However, I am uncertain as to whether directly communicating with them given such odious fringe promotionals could contravene WP:DENY. Borgenland (talk) 16:11, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
    • Establishing trollness after four edits is a bit quick, to my mind. If they come back, feel free to report at AIV, with an explanatory note, and please mark the edit summaries when you revert--NOTFORUM would have been legitimate here. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 16:29, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

      Thanks for reminding me of WP:FORUM. I do have forgotten to use that keyword lately. Borgenland (talk) 16:32, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

      @Drmies their reply to your warning: [[123]] is clearly proof of WP:NOTHERE, WP:NPA and WP:IDNHT. Borgenland (talk) 18:20, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• Yet another example of why we should leave breaking news to news outlets, and start the article no less than a week after the event, when the dust has at least started to settle. EEng 18:46, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
  • If only admins could get a mandate to enforce NOTNEWS, User:EEng. For shits and giggles, look at Yasuke and the talk page. Ha I bet that talk page is bigger than yours! I was way ahead of you. You might think that a 300k discussion about whether a guy in a video game was or was not a samurai couldn't get any more ridiculous, but actually it can: there's someone there was someone there speculating about whether the guy was gay -- a black gay samurai. Now I've seen everything. Drmies (talk) 00:50, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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Lonermovement Investments / 41.115.23.137

Greetings from Commons. I just zapped the User:Lonermovement Investments's uploads as spam over on that project and see they're trying to plug their brand here too. The IP came in right after the account and added more spam, with a fake edit summary. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:08, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Reported to UAA. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 22:46, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

I indefinitely blocked Lonermovement Investments for promotional username/promotional edits. Thank you, The Squirrel Conspiracy for bringing this to our attention. Thanks also for the 105 million media files that Commons hosts. Cullen328 (talk) 07:45, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

@Cullen328: Thanks! The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:31, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

SPA removing sourced and due content from Edcel Greco Lagman

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• Edcel Greco Lagman (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Gabnaparato (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), an SPA account with a possible undisclosed COI, has been reverting sourced and relevant information about Edcel Greco Lagman despite repeated warnings. I had filed an ANI report three months ago but was advised to warn them off first about COI and SPI and WP:OWN. They have not provided any explanation and clarification as to their activity, have not bothered to respond to warnings and have resumed wiping off data from said page after a hiatus. Requesting for definite action to be taken on this. Borgenland (talk) 08:45, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

The previous ANI was here on March 11, where the only admin comment was from User:Dennis Brown. To stop the removal of sourced content we might consider WP:ECP. EdJohnston (talk) 15:04, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Can this be filed to the requests for page protection page? Borgenland (talk) 15:08, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Unless there is disagreement here I can apply the EC protection myself. EdJohnston (talk) 15:39, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

None on my part. Appreciate this remedy. Borgenland (talk) 15:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• ECP sounds good. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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5ive9teen, ownership behaviour and possible competence issues

• 5ive9teen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Shōgun (novel) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I believe 5ive9teen (talk · contribs) is exhibiting WP:OWNERSHIP behaviour on the article Shōgun (novel). In a month's time, starting April 16, they made 300 edits to the article (see its history). Over those 300 edits, they repeatedly made unnecessary additions. I have told them this several times. See diff, it includes unnecessary piped links, stylistic errors, incorrect curly apostrophes, grammatical errors, factual errors (Dutch and English people are not considered Northern European, while the Portuguese are considered Southern European) and more. This discussion went on their talk page and later on Talk:Shōgun (novel)#Premise. Sergecross73 edit protected the article. In response, 5ive9teen workshopped the premise section on the talk page, in 40 revisions.

On May 15 I edited the article. I strongly urged them to read, check and double-check my edit before reverting again. Instead, 27 revisions later, they mostly undid my edits again.

Perhaps it's a WP:COMPETENCE issue, but it's definitely WP:OWNERSHIP behaviour. I have repeatedly stated I do not agree with their edits. They utter hollow words, stating they want to establish consensus, here for instance, without actually taking the time to discuss the article.

They have also been recently warned by FlightTime and Anachronist for edit warring on two separate articles. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 08:48, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Also notifying CapnZapp, HiGuys69420, Areaseven, Wikipedialuva and Aoidh, who also recently edited the article. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 08:52, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi guys is there a problem, I have no idea what is going on HiGuys69420 (talk) 14:47, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, but you're not directly involved and don't need to participate here if you don't want to. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 22:22, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Yesterday, 5ive9teenremoved the notification of this discussion and have not replied here. Instead, there have been five more edits, bringing their total edit count to the article to 307. WP:OWNERSHIP continues, WP:DIDNTHEARTHAT behavior continues, adding incorrect markup continues. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 07:52, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

User:MarsVHS

Recent time-limited block for disruptive editing. Is now issuing legal threats on their Talk Page. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:06, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Looking funny to me, I can't get what she wants to say, she said "You guys are interrupting my business", "You're impeding on my business." How can Wikipedia interrupt business. Lol GrabUp - Talk 17:13, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

My interpretation was "Wikipedia won't publish my article --> my business gets less business --> I get less money --> this is legally actionable". Which, seems like a bit of a stretch. I'm not a lawyer, though. 142.245.193.2 (talk) 17:22, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I've removed email access now. No comment on someone else deciding this account has no future here. Izno (talk) 17:16, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I've indeffed.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:28, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Possible UPE/socking

• Lakasera (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Bamalli01 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Onoja1
• Yahaya Bello (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Not sure if this might be better suited for SPI but figured with potential UPE as well I'd bring it here. User:Lakasera is continuing to restore content at Yahaya Bello added by a different user, User:Bamalli01, and both have ignored questions about paid editing (even though it's obvious they have seen them as they have removed warnings from their user talk page). Both have had similar issues with copyright on the same pages (see Draft:RanoGaz Company - LPG). No opinion on the content dispute at Yahaya Bello because I haven't looked at the content itself very hard, mainly concerned about the very similar issues between the two accounts. Tollens (talk) 20:02, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Stumbled across the very similar Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Onoja1 which has had issues on Yahaya Bello with identical content to what's in dispute right now (Special:Diff/1164476122). I can take this to SPI if that would be easier. Tollens (talk) 20:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Seems like a fairly straightforward sockpuppet of User:Bamalli01; likely also be connected to the blocked User:Onoja1, User:Ogoos11, and User:Kwaro1 as the accounts are adding the same text and have similar mannerisms. On the content, this seems likely to be a very biased group of accounts or (more likely) a paid editor due to their other aggrandizing edits and article creations. The accounts blank the well-sourced and previously-discussed Controversies section then add biased and unsourced puffery. Watercheetah99 (talk) 20:48, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

how could I paid in free encyclopedia was not like you I don't know any user ogoos11 and kwaro1. Bamalli01 (talk) 20:52, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

There's sufficient evidence that you have other accounts. One other account made a very similar edit like yours on the article. GoodHue291 (talk) 20:56, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't know the other account what I know is that I am editing in Wikipedia I don't when last I contributed in Yahaya Bello article. Bamalli01 (talk) 21:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

The edits and mannerisms are very similar between all five accounts, it's possible you have no connection but that wouldn't be relevant to the POV violations and section blanking that all of the accounts do — that's still inappropriate behavior. Watercheetah99 (talk) 21:04, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't know any user with like that I have right to contribute in Yahaya Bello watercheetah99 don't have any right to stop me. Bamalli01 (talk) 21:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• I've blocked both users as socks of Onoja1. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 21:51, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Ingenuity: Looks like there's an IP to block back on that article again. Maybe page protection would be useful too. Tollens (talk) 23:09, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

  I've protected the page for a month. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 00:30, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Langalakh

Langalakh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

The only edits this user has made have been to my personal talk page. They asked me some questions about desertification and tungsten carbide which are easily answered by reading those articles. They said this was for a school assignment. They have repeatedly jumped into conversations on this page with other users in unhelpful ways. I asked them not to do this and said they might be blocked from editing if they aren't using talk pages to help write articles, and they said they understood but then did so again anyway. Previous jumpings-in:

• Special:diff/1223834172
• Special:diff/1223668700
• Special:diff/1223557584

-- Beland (talk) 20:26, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Sass (style sheet language)

• Sass (style sheet language) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

This article should be a nice, sedate one about a technical topic, but one of the software's authors expressed an opinion about geopolitics, so now a rotating series of IPs are adding stuff like this diff to the page. When citations are added, they are links to github histories / issue forum posts and used as a launching point for OR. I think the article could do not only with protection, but someone willing to go through and revdelete BLP violations. - MrOllie (talk) 20:39, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

The article has already been semi-protected. I partially blocked the IP for a bit longer than the page protection will last. It seems this person has decided that Wikipedia's reliance on secondary sources is stupid and was only invented to stop people from righting great wrongs. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

The recent addition would seem to be covered by WP:ARBECR so the IPs are not allowed to touch that whatever their sources. Same if they try to complain on the talk page now that it's been semied, just warn and revert IMO. Nil Einne (talk) 02:05, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I get that it is sometimes obvious what the contentious topic is, but why do so many people revert or talk about it by saying only WP:ARBECR?

ARBECR is a remedy, the starting text says "The Committee may apply the "extended confirmed restriction" to specified topic areas." and does not mention what the topic is at all, shows no evidence that the area being reverted is covered by the remedy at all and is usually not the only remedy applied to a topic. – 2804:F14:80B7:8201:90E7:C193:821D:E8C2 (talk) 02:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I can't speak for others but I'm fairly sure whenever I've reverted I've always gone to the editor's talk page and at least given them a CTOP alert for the Arab-Israeli topic area. Alternatively if I'm closing a thread on a talk page I might explain when closing. IMO in a case like this it should be standard practice. I mean an edit summary is probably okay to provided you link to the A-I case or similar. That said I can understand editors feeling it unnecessary if the whole page is so clearly in the topic area e.g. an article directly about the current war that the talk page has notices and there's maybe even an edit notice. Nil Einne (talk) 07:35, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

For clarity, in such cases the article is unlikely a problem since it's already EC protected. But the talk page can be when editors try to do stuff besides edit requests. Nil Einne (talk) 13:24, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

User:CastlevaniaWriter

Apologies in advance if this is the wrong section. Please redirect me. I would like the adminstrator's guidance in this matter. Alucard (Castlevania) is an article about the character's appearance in the Castlevania franchise, and not exclusively the video games he first appeared in. The character was confirmed to be bisexual in the animated series by the producers, Sam Deats. Reliable source: https://x.com/SamuelDeats/status/1237933897687740417

User:CastlevaniaWriter has consistently removed the categories Fictional LGBT characters and Fictional bisexuals from the article, their argument being that Alucard is not LGBT+ in the original video games. I reiterated the article covers Alucard in all media, even in the lead summary. When they said Iron Man from Marvel was not tagged as such, despite being bisexual in a spinoff, I thought the category Fictional LGBT characters in animation was still warranted - Alucard was confirmed as such in the animated show. CastlevaniaWriter then reverted it without explanation or offering another argument.

I noticed from User:CastlevaniaWriter's edit history they have a fixation with what they personally believe to be fraudulent categories of LGBT+ characters. I posted a warning on their talk page because I at least find their edits to the Alucard article to be disruptive.

Why? Correct me if I am wrong, but none of these categories were invalid, and they are backed up by a reliable source. At the very least, the category Fictional LGBT characters in animation cannot be disputed. I also know Wikipedia generally allows these tags in articles about fictional characters, even when their original incarnation is not LGBT+. Harley Quinn is a noted example. My question for the adminstrators: is this correct? What does the manual of style say? MailleWanda (talk) 20:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi @MailleWanda. I suggest you try the various suggestions at dispute resolution. Admins don't mediate content disputes. Schazjmd (talk) 20:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

OK, thanks. MailleWanda (talk) 21:08, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Requested block of non-communicative unregistered editor adding external links to articles

Can an administrator please take a look at the actions of User:2a02:587:a13:3600:15ca:6f11:362d:ce16 and their previous IP addresses 2a02:587:a13:3600:e9a1:caf7:86f9:ab37 and 2a02:587:a13:3600:8ad:a8ea:6792:9bea? Many of their edits added external links to the body of articles (e.g., [124], [125], [126]). I have asked them to please stop and they have continued. They have not replied to any Talk page messages or ever used an edit summary. I'm afraid that the only way to get them to stop violating WP:EL is to block them. ElKevbo (talk) 21:19, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

IPs belonging to the range 2A02:587:A13:3600::/64 are all used by one person; there are actually a few more than the three you give, User:ElKevbo, also with similar contributions. (All contributions are here.) This is not a good reason for the person to ignore the warnings at the most recent IP, User talk:2A02:587:A13:3600:E9A1:CAF7:86F9:AB37. I've blocked the /64 for 72 hours. Bishonen | tålk 00:35, 18 May 2024 (UTC).

@Bishonen: Thanks for blocking the IP addresses. But it appears they either had an account this whole time and they're now logged in or another editor is making the exact same edits - 15mav0. I'm happy to open an SPI but I think the behavioral evidence is strong enough to warrant a block for block evasion. ElKevbo (talk) 14:07, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

@ElKevbo we can’t do an SPI to identify an IP address with an account due to privacy issues. Doug Weller talk 19:29, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

A CheckUser can't link an IP to a named account. Anyone else can, and an SPI can certainly be filed.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

An SPI is unnecessary - there are clear behavioral grounds to link these accounts. They edit the same articles over the same time spans in the same ways - it can't much clearer. They're continuing the same behavior that led to their IP addresses being blocked. ElKevbo (talk) 20:38, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I considered a hardblock (="apply block to logged-in users from this IP address") when I blocked, suspecting this might happen. I've changed to that now, as well as lengthened the rangeblock to a week. And blocked 15mav0 for a month. Bishonen | tålk 20:59, 18 May 2024 (UTC).

User:Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist and User:Licks-rocks civility concerns

Both of these users have raised serious civility concerns on Wikipedia_talk:No_queerphobia#Replies_to_Your_Friendly_Neighborhood_Sociologist. YFNS made a pretty blatant personal attack, saying I will say it plainly, stretching the absolute limits on assuming good faith, that was stupid and raises serious WP:CIR concerns. If I was a little less inclined to assume that what seems to be constant dogwhistling from you is genuine concern, I'd say you were a queerphobic troll. Licks-rocks is constantly assuming bad faith from me and making false statements about my edits, such as repeatedly saying that I removed a bullet point when I had actually merged it for redundancy, and later for saying that I had speculated on YFNS's competency to edit in this topic space based on her age at transition, something I did not imply. Unnamed anon (talk) 23:05, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• For clarity: I said this briefly before in a comment below, but I think this info should be at the top for clarity since I'm potentially/partially withdrawing one of the two users from this report. I think I can safely drop the WP:STICK against specifically Licks-rocks (the report stays up for YFNS though, I'm not letting the personal attack nor the disruption slide). Maybe a warning could be issued for me and Licks-rocks because of the conduct Licks-rocks and I had with each other, but I don't think there needs to be anything further for Licks-rocks. During the 7 hours so far Licks-rocks has been either asleep or busy, I discovered a diff (listed below in one of my comments) where they seemed open to discussion. It appears the false accusations were from good faith misunderstanding, not from malice, with the misunderstanding and frustration going both ways between both of us. It's annoying that the two of us had to go through this, and I apologize; arguing with two editors simultaneously frazzled me, and I had initially missed the diff that solved many of my civility concerns for Licks-rocks, even if we still disagree on the content. I think the Licks-rocks conflict can easily be reduced from a civility concern to a content dispute, which, while not ideal, is no longer serious enough for ANI. If something new comes up with Licks-rocks, I may reinstate my report against them, but so far I believe I can come to an understanding with Licks-rocks. As I said though, my report against YFNS remains due to the severity of her personal attack. Unnamed anon (talk) 06:40, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Just in case anybody is wondering what context UA is neglecting to mention, that comment was in response to the fact they removed That accepting transgender youth is a slippery slope toward putting litter boxes in schools or other strange beliefs about identity. from a list of queerphobic beliefs in an essay - stating that Anything regarding transgender youth is too controversial to be here (emphasis mine). [127] . Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 23:27, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

A content dispute is not a good reason to call me a troll, bad faith, or incompetent. You're also neglecting to mention how you started the whole argument with a sarcastic Non-Endorsement, which was extremely disruptive. Unnamed anon (talk) 23:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

As I explained on your talk page, this goes beyond "content dispute", which I assume is why you took it here. --Licks-rocks (talk) 23:35, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

It goes into user conduct dispute once YFNS made the very blatant personal attack, and I was also sick of you saying that I said things I did not do, and yours' and YNFS's latest comments on the essay talk page were the last straw. Unnamed anon (talk) 23:38, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Actually, I think it went into user conduct dispute when I told you to stop repeatedly trying to delete content from that essay. The rest happened because ANI cases are a hassle and I was hoping you'd have stopped by now. If you have, I can't tell, because you're too busy arguing back and filing ANI cases against me --Licks-rocks (talk) 23:43, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Do you remember how several editors retracted their !delete votes to get rid of the essay because I was deleting content that was found to be problematic, and they cited the deletions as overall improvements? I figured it would be fine to keep trying to improve the essay, but then you accused me of disruptive editing because according to you, I shouldn't edit a page I voted to delete on. I also didn't want it to come to an ANI case, but once you said I was questioning YFNS's competence because of her identity rather than her behavior, as well as her name-calling me, those were the last straws. Unnamed anon (talk) 23:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Do you have a diff on questioning YFNS's competence because of her identity rather than her behavior? You can't just say someone said that without diffs. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 02:27, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Here is the diff where I felt Licks-Rocks was accusing me, and here is the diff where YFNS made a very blatant personal attack. I'd also like to mention that I just discovered a diff showing that Licks-rocks is able to discuss civilly, finally realizing that I had merged a point instead of deleting it, although it came after these two diffs of false accusations. I apologize to Licks-rocks for not finding that first diff before making this ANI. My conflict with Licks-rocks hasn't disappeared fully, but my trust has been partially renewed after reading the diff where they said "fair point", as it seems like a lot of our dispute was founded over miscommunication. However, the issue with YFNS remains fully intact, and I can not in any way trust a user who will blatantly call another user a "queerphobic troll", cast aspersions of incompetence and dogwhistling, threaten to take me to AE over a content dispute, or in general say something as hostile as cry as much as you want, or make it extremely clear she's not open to discussion by saying the essay isn't going to change for you. Saying "I would call you a troll" is essentially the exact same thing as "I am calling you a troll right now". am aware that YFNS has had a GENSEX TBAN before; should her TBAN be reinstated if she will behave with such hostility towards a conflict dispute? In fact, for good measure, here's her sarcastic Non-Endorsement that I found to be disruptive, and the additional comment that made it confusing if she was being serious or satirical, furthering her disruption. I don't think there's any specific policy against sarcastic/satirical comments in talk pages, but they're not helpful and only make things confusing. Unnamed anon (talk) 03:13, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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YFNS had a GENSEX TBAN because admins refused to close the discussion when the filer was revealed to be a sock. It was illegitimate to begin with. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 03:46, 18 May 2024 (UTC) This time, it isn't a sock filing. Also, even during that prior discussion, many legitimate editors came forth with actual problems against YFNS. As the closer stated, It might make or break in a close discussion, but this was not close… Even though the filing was in bad faith, once the issue was up, it became apparent that there was indeed problem's with TheTranarchists editing. Unnamed anon (talk) 03:58, 18 May 2024 (UTC) Really LilianaUwU? You think I'm a sockpuppet because of beef with one user?. I just checked the supposed sock master's edits, and I don't have any other edits in common with the supposed sock master, especially not any of the pages tied to locations I have no familiarity with nor have I ever been to. Go ahead and check our IPs, unless the sock master is by some chance in the same area as me they'll be different. I would, however, like to report LilianaUwU for the unfounded aspersion that I could be a sock. Unnamed anon (talk) 04:46, 18 May 2024 (UTC) Yeah, and I withdrew it when I realized I'm horribly wrong. Apologies for the aspersion casting. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 04:51, 18 May 2024 (UTC) I apologize for blowing up at you. I'm glad you understand that I was frustrated at a false accusation. I'll strike my above comment. Unnamed anon (talk) 04:54, 18 May 2024 (UTC) Nah, it's fair to be mad at me for such a big mistake. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 04:55, 18 May 2024 (UTC) Also, since we're here... might as well put this up here. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 05:11, 18 May 2024 (UTC) Casting of ass Persians

I am open for a two-way interaction ban between me and both of these users, though I would still like for their behavior to be examined, as the name-calling and assumption of bad faith are both very uncivil in my opinion. I am also open to examination of my own behavior. Unnamed anon (talk) 23:16, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

See also the conversation I had with anon at his talk page. Also, take a look at the conversation mentioned above, and anon's general editing history since that MfD. Something something doth protest too much. --Licks-rocks (talk) 23:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Your most recent edit to my talk page still falls under my civility concern. You accused me, again, of obviously disagreeing with the premise of the essay, when I had literally just explained that I do think queerphobia is hate, and that the disagreement was what the essay considered queerphobia. Unnamed anon (talk) 23:16, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Your interpretation of what the words "the premise" mean is very narrow here, to me. All in all, you've been pretty vocal about disliking what amounts to the vast majority of that essay, so I don't think what I'm saying is an unfair characterisation. --Licks-rocks (talk) 23:21, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Just noting that this reply was made to the initial post(diff), the OP wrote the text this is currently a reply to 5 mins after the reply was made(diff). – 2804:F1...1D:E8C2 (talk) 03:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Crazy thought. Stop arguing with each other here before anyone else has a chance to chime in. You both look bad. --Onorem (talk) 00:00, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

As an uninvolved administrator, I have been watching discussions about this essay for a while. Things are getting nasty and it must stop. All editors involved with this essay pro and con should be advised that false accusations, snide remarks, personal attacks and slow motion edit warring are unacceptable. Be on your best behavior, or be prepared to accept the consequences. Cullen328 (talk) 03:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

yeah, uh, what he said jp×g🗯️ 07:49, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Unnamed anon's contributions in this area have been disruptive and it is far past time that he dropped the WP:STICK. His comments in the essay's MFD consisted mainly of soapboxing about his own personal views of what is and is not queerphobic instead of making policy-based arguments, he edited an archived deletion review after it was headed for a unanimous endorsement to suggest yet more discussion should be held, and now he bring this dispute to ANI after he chose to escalate it at seemingly every turn (ex. suggesting YFNS remove the "friendly" from her username). It's just an essay! Hatman31 (talk) 04:05, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I can see your point about my comments on the MfD being soapboxing and not policy-based, but I can explain the edit to the archived deletion review. YFNS sarcastically wrote a Non-Endorsement and this additional comment made it confusing if she was being serious or satirical. My thought process was that she wouldn't reply to her original endorsement if she wasn't at least somewhat serious. It turned out to be sarcasm, but it was legitimately hard to tell until she replied later, so I requested to reopen the Deletion Review now that new info had supposedly come to light. Did I write it in the wrong place? Yes. I had no idea where to write it, and because I didn't know if it was sarcasm I didn't want to waste a page on new info if I didn't know it was serious or not. As for saying YFNS should remove the word "Friendly" from her username, I'll admit I did step too far and my comment could be interpreted as a personal attack, but I had felt she made a personal attack towards me first by misinterpreting my replies on the talk page and by saying that my agreement with her disruptive sarcasm was a stupid bar, before of course she made a more blatant personal attack. Unnamed anon (talk) 04:46, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

If the people who write an essay want to avoid arguing about it with others who want it to say something else, why not just put it in userspace to begin with? That's what userspace is for, after all. This kind of thing is why I said it ought to have been userfied in the first place... jp×g🗯️ 07:47, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Also, uh, what is this -- "In any case, cry as much as you want" -- it's great that you have good opinions and etc etc, but I do distinctly recall a person being indeffed some years ago after repeated ad-hominems about other editors "crying"/having "cried" -- so maybe less of that. jp×g🗯️ 08:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I'd also like to add that the next diff was the one that proved that Licks-rocks (who I also initially reported but have mostly dropped the stick towards by now) can actually be reasonable, with a statement like Fair point on the first removal. However, because YFNS blatantly called me a troll at the exact same time, I was more focused on that, and didn't discover that Licks-rocks even made that comment until a few hours after filing this ANI, and ended up wasting Lick-rocks' time. While I can only speculate, I do think the conflict between me and Licks-rocks would have reached a more natural conclusion if I wasn't also dealing with YFNS's disruption and general incivility at the same time. Unnamed anon (talk) 08:34, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• It is unfortunate, if unsurprising, to see UA at AN/I. But the signs were there from the start. It is worth noting that they registered this account for the sole reason of continuing an edit war which they had waged as an IP, intent on restoring unsourced cruft material to an already-swamped fanboy page, even when advised against doing so (e.g. by Drmies, and Ad Orientam). This led them to forum shop in excelsis, and saw them file in rapid order at WP:AE, the Teahouse (!!!) and WP:ANI. They accuse others of lying (noted GorillaWarfare). I note that little seems to have changed. While it might look as transphobia is their latest POV to push, they have had similar gender-based problems previously (Claiming someone is gay because of a Twitter post, or advice from Tamzin in which she notes a degree of offensiveness in his treatment of transgender people); before which their previous behavior pales. But the side issues brought up—here and on UA's talk page—demonstrate that the lessons of a few years ago have not been learned. Edit warring (and the continuing misunderstanding of what constitutes it), bludgeoning, aspersions of trolling and edit warring (result: No violation: and the closing admin told UA they were basically throwing anything to see what stuck), and a basic IDHT unwillingness to be counselled are all old behaviors not yet unlearned. To quote Eggishorn to UA:

  You will, of course, dispute every characterization of your edits I've made above and defend yourself from these "accusations". Your statements at the Teahouse and DRN and AE all demonstrate that, no matter how many editors have told you this approach is mal-adapted for this website, you are going to insist on your righteousness. Please: you really, really need to slow down and read instructions and the feedback you've already received before you keep going. You are treating the entire project as your personal WP:BATTLEGROUND.

  That warning was from nearly four years ago. plus ça change, and four years later, we are having almost exactly the same conversation. Such recidivism suggests that they are a net negative and continually soaking up editors' time and energy requires a preventative block. ——Serial Number 54129 12:59, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129: While I hate to bring up an entirely separate discussion into the mix, if you're going to bring up that one from 4 years ago, I can't see how you reverting to your preferred version of a page every month or two could be considered anything but slow motion edit warring, especially since three of the people who reverted you were not me (the first was an entirely different user and the other two were separate IPs who were not me). Only these two IPs editing that page were me, with a third one briefly rotated to here (and the first one was a temporary one as I was editing while not in my hometown), before I made my account in August, as I wanted to avoid the aspersion you cast that any IP reverting your edits to that page was me. In addition to the aspersion that every IP editing that page was me, and another aspersion of "bullshitting innocent admins", you publicly stated my location at the time, something I really do not appreciate, as it comes very close to doxxing. Calling me a "crufter" in that same edit where you stated my location at the time also comes close to being a personal attack since it's immature name-calling, but I'll let that slide for now because doxxing me was so much worse. Even after reverting your edit I had tried to find a compromise by removing said cruft without entirely removing the article's substance and tried to add sources (examples of both). I'm not going to pretend I'm blameless in that situation for a WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior that I admit I still have, and forumshopping that I have mostly stopped doing since that discussion with you, but it seems like you still believe you were entirely in the right even four years later, when what you were doing 4 years ago couldn't be described as anything but the exact type of slow motion edit warring that I'm (probably correctly) at stake for right now, and you're completely blowing off my attempt at cooperation. I hope anybody else reading can understand that I was frustrated at clear slow-motion edit warring from SN54129 being called "not warring" and especially towards being doxxed, even if my response to edit war back or forumshop wasn't appropriate. As I was a new editor back then, I did not know how to describe slow motion edit warring, and as I said I have not continued forumshopping. You're also claiming that Ad Orientem had told me to not edit the page; he never did that at all, and specifically said that In this case I am now satisfied that there is nothing malicious going on here when I raised my concerns. You linked GorillaWarfare, who said you were discussing on the talk page; while you were doing so properly in January, when the discussion resurfaced in August, your only substantial edit to the talk page was the aforementioned doxxing. You are also leaving out GorillaWarfare's next comment suggesting what I should do, and me properly following her advice. While I appreciate constructive criticism (Hatman31's criticism was constructive, for example), Serial Number 54129's criticism is not constructive at all, as it appears that you still believe you are blameless, when that clearly is not the case, and are completely ignoring instances where I showed that I was able to properly come to a compromise and consensus. I also can't trust how the discussion below started by Kcmastrpc was initially collapsed by you, when another user is bringing up issues with Licks-rocks. I hate to WP:BOOMERANG to a user that was initially uninvolved, but I feel I have to when said editor is misconstruing facts of a prior debate to get me blocked, whether intentionally or misguided. Unnamed anon (talk) 16:23, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Did I mention walls of text, anyone? That's another favored technique, and comparable to the AN3 report where an admin said they are basically throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the report.

But while it's true I was involved in that case, I deliberately didn't personalise it by adding my opinion. I did not even mention the causes of the dispute or the original page it revolved around. That's because it's irrelevant. What's relevant is you are showing the same behavior here as you did four years ago—as indicated by your immediate attempts at diverting the discussion into rehashing and relitigating an argument from four years ago. Anyone clicking those links will see my involvement and judge as necessary. But the important thing in these discussions is not to personalise them, as that generates more heat than light. Unfortunately, you have proved Eggishorn's point for them: you immediately personalize the discussion, go on a battlefield attack, while accepting no responsibility. You should remember, now, that it's not about me, and more to the point, it's not about defending yourself to me—you must defend yourself to the community. I imagine a little self-reflection and consideration for others might go a long way towards helping your case; I hope it's not too late.

Feel free to cry boomerang all you like; I do not feel such chill on the back of my head to necessitate wearing a helmet.

PS I've re-hatted that extraneous section, as it clearly would have been undone by admin if it was out of place. It was not. That essay has enough discussions on it already if you want to join one of them.

I expect there will be further walls of text to enjoy; I doubt I will avail myself of the opportunity to do so. ——Serial Number 54129 18:15, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Hatting the below discussion is still not appropriate if another user is bringing up concerns about Licks-rocks, whose user conduct is also being judged. And I feel I do need a wall of text if you're going to be casting aspersions by saying I have a misunderstanding of what constitutes [edit warring] or blatantly misrepresenting admin statements. You're also either lying or not reading carefully that I am accepting no responsibility, when I had literally just said I'm not going to pretend I'm blameless in that situation for a WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior that I admit I still have. I have no desire to sanction you for a discussion that ended long ago, but aside from the BATTLEGROUND problem I realize I have, your argument to block me is misconstruing the facts. Also seriously, another user saying Feel free to cry? Didn't JPxG literally just say that was a uncivil? Unnamed anon (talk) 18:30, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• @Serial Number 54129: What does a random BNHA argument from 2020 have to do with an AN/I now, other than strongly imply that everyone here has a tumblr? Is the idea to just get us to start arguing about whether BakuDeku is a bad ship?? Be still my dash... jp×g🗯️ 18:39, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  Re. What does a random BNHA argument from 2020 have to do with an AN/I now: Nothing, as I said JPxG; but the similarity of the behaviors demonstrated then, with those demonstrated over this essay, are clear. This recidivism—a long-term failure to abide by community norms and expectations—has resulted in this thread. You agree, of course, that a pattern of behavior needs to be proved. I give you UA's own history. Anyway, please focus on UA's current transphobia and consider my input as background to the current complaint.

  Re. the rest of your message, I have no idea it relates to or what answer is required, apologies. Cheers, ——Serial Number 54129 19:03, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  As I stated, most of the diffs you linked were things that were either before I came to a proper consensus and abided by community norms and expectation, or things I haven't done since I was new. Only the BATTLEGROUND complaint was valid. It appears you believe I don't abide by the community norms because you didn't participate in the discussion to resolve the edit war you were a part of. Unnamed anon (talk) 19:16, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  Well, I'm just some guy online, but if I were trying to get someone to stop posting huge walls of text, I would try to find some way to criticize their behavior without making repeated vague accusations of bigotry, something which necessarily requires them to type out gigantic reams of text to respond to and deny et cetera. jp×g🗯️ 20:11, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  @JPxG: Thank you. Both SN54129 and YFNS have shown why I write these walls of text in the first place. I'd like to mention that, while I was editing as an IP, SN publicly stated my location at the time with a whatismyipaddress link and used immature name-calling, the former of which comes dangerously close to doxxing. Frankly, now that this is the first time me and SN have interacted in years, I'm open for a two-way interaction ban between the two of us as well, because he can't respond to me civilly, or criticize me without outdated information (seriously, why bring up forumshopping if I haven't done that since I was new?), and I can't WP:DROPTHESTICK towards his incivility. Unnamed anon (talk) 20:30, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  @JPxG: SN54129's argument was to prove that I have a WP:BATTLEGROUND mindset, which I'll concede he is correct about. Unless somebody else beings up a new issue with me, I think only BATTLEGROUND issue remains though; the rest are pretty egregious aspersions. The edit warring he's accusing me of was primarily from him, several admin statements were misrepresented as those statements were before I came to agreements with them, and the rest of the diffs represent things I haven't done since 2020. Unnamed anon (talk) 18:56, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• WP:BOOMERANG aside, that doesn't really negate the WP:BATTLEGROUND that is emerging on the recently created essay. There's no easy solution to that, honestly, and the controversy surrounding it's creation, deletion proposal, and subject matter in general is indicative of the broader culture war that naturally coexists on Wikipedia. I see general incivility around, and I was accused of WP:ASPERSIONS by Licks-rocks regarding the MfD when I explicitly avoided alleging canvassing was deliberate.[128] Kcmastrpc (talk) 13:24, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  The easy solution would have been to delete the essay but the community missed that opportunity and now nobody is surprised it's a battleground. Levivich (talk) 13:47, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  I know I haven't been involved much in this discussion, but maybe a rewrite of the essay might do something.CycoMa1 (talk) 14:14, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

  I also explained my reasoning for that on your talk page. I'm glad that you're making the distinction between accidental canvassing and intentional canvassing now, but I'm sure you'll forgive me for not divining that from your initial comments, where you referred to the extremely standard issue notice placed at WP:LGBT as seeming, quote, "quite partisan as it didn't even attempt to include any potentially dissenting voices.". --Licks-rocks (talk) 17:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

• WP:PG allows essays in project namespace that are the opinion or advice of an editor or group of editors for which widespread consensus has not been established. It follows that editors who fundamentally disagree with an essay should just leave it be (short of taking it to MfD, which we have been through). There is no reason to continue this escalating conflict. Trying to achieve consensus on something that by definition expresses a view that does not have widespread consensus is impossible. Now if you will excuse me, I am off to rewrite WP:MANDY to match the infinitely wiser WP:NOTMANDY.--Trystan (talk) 14:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Licks-rocks has given me new info that I was legitimately unaware of, to which I replied that I'm open for compromises. If other editors have problems with Licks-rocks, go ahead, but I no longer have problems with them outside of a minor, easily solveable content dispute. YFNS struck her "cry about it" comment, which I'm glad for, but she did not strike the dogwhistling/compotency/bad faith aspersions nor calling me a troll, which is still a concern since those were more blatant personal attacks.

Additionally, SN54129's faulty and outdated evidence against me makes me distrust him further, he's also given the uncivil "Feel free to cry" statement that, unlike YFNS, he has not struck, and I still haven't forgiven him for doxxing my location four years ago. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that he's acting in bad faith. Dishonest use of "diffs". Making a claim, then providing a link in a form of a diff which supposedly supports the claim when the diff actually shows nothing of the sort, and if you go the the next diff in his "unwillingness to be counseled" aspersion, you can see very well my willingness to be counseled. I'd like for two-way interaction bans between me and both SN54129 and YFNS. Unnamed anon (talk) 20:56, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Wrt WP:CIR, you admit just above that you were editing an article and removing mentions of trans kids because you didn't realize genital surgery isn't done on elementary schoolers. The text you removed and are saying this about didn't even mention medical transition.

If I was a little less inclined to assume that what seems to be constant dogwhistling from you is genuine concern, I'd say you were a queerphobic troll - this is me saying that I was interpreting your behavior, that came off as queerphobic, as genuine concern, as opposed to trolling. Stop trying to twist that into you are a queerphobic troll because that's not what I said. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 22:53, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I'll trust that you think I had genuine concern, but saying "I'd call you a troll" is pretty easily read as "I am calling you a troll right now". Unnamed anon (talk) 23:34, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I issued a warning nearly a day ago, and Unnamed anon thanked me for my warning and then proceeded to disregard my warning. Unnamed anon continued with battleground behavior, which, strikingly, the editor themself acknowledges as battleground behavior, and yet continues even after being warned at this very noticeboard. On to the repeated mentions of "doxxing" based on another editor saying that certain IP edits were made from California, which any competent person could confirm with a handful of keystrokes. California has 39 million residents and who knows how many visitors at any point in time, and is by far the most populous state. California is the third largest US state by area, stretching 950 miles from Crescent City to Calexico. In the spirit of full disclosure, I have lived in California for 52 years which simply informs my analysis. So, this ongoing "doxxing" complaint is entirely without merit and should be dropped completely . WP:TLDR is another aspect of my block. The unpaid volunteer competent labor of productive editors is by far our most valuable resource. Disruptive editors who repeatedly waste that precious time have two choices: Stop it or get blocked. Accordingly, I have blocked the editor for a week. Cullen328 (talk)

I don't have enough energy to compile diffs and detailed timelines, but one pattern of behavior from Unnamed anon is that they often make changes that are disputed but fail to engage on discussions that follow. For example this section was opened after UA had made 10+ consecutive edits removing a portion of the essay content. A part of those removals saw some discussion before UA made those edits, with no apparent consensus. Despite that, UA went ahead and implemented those, along with some additional content they thought warranted removal, which I disputed in another section. This time UA only engaged after someone suggested CBAN. At the history page of the essay, you can see how UA has on multiple occasions did this:

1. makes a change that was disputed/considered problematic
2. when others bring the issue to talk, refuse to engage or minimally engage with the consensus building process, with other editors having to make reverts.
3. after discussion for that dies down, UA goes ahead and makes another edit that is problematic/disputed, perpetuating this pattern of behavior.

This is disruptive editing with the time wasting, combined with some WP:TEND as well. WP:GENSEX is already a contentious topic, and UA's behavior is subpar. Combined with SN54129's background above, my preference would be a CBAN. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 05:43, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I know he's magnanimously decided to let me off the hook if I don't do anything further to offend him, but sadly, I have to agree with this assessment. Something else I've noticed is that UA also frequently uses individual comments by users on talk pages as a cue, where someone will say something negative about a part of the essay as an aside, and two minutes later I'll see a "per the talk page" removal of the entire thing from UA. See here and here. Neither of these were preceded by actual discussion, just off-the-cuff comments by single editors. I should note that since the ANI discussion, he's started adding stuff instead, using the exact same "one talk page comment as a cue" MO, see here. I'm accepting the new additions under AGF, but they do leave me scratching my head. The quality issue should be obvious, but even when done in good faith, interrupting talk page discussions like this makes carrying out those discussions properly more difficult, and is tiresome to deal with. --Licks-rocks (talk) 08:01, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

After Cullen328 made the temp block and explained in the comment above, there is a response at UA's talk page. The part that specifically addressed this ANI thread is copied here.

As for the discussion at ANI, I have no more interest in editing the No Queerphobia essay, as I fully realize that, regardless of my intent, it is clear I do have a disruptive editing pattern there. I fully understand 0xDeadbeef and Licks-rocks' points that I added content way too fast after seeing it on the talk page. It would be better for everybody's mental health, including mine, for me to outright ignore the essay. I would prefer not having an official page ban, at least not an indefinite one, as the block notice on my contributions list will remind me of the page's existence and defeat the whole purpose of me ignoring its existence. This talk page section serves as a good reminder for me without being the reminder being constantly everywhere, but I will promise to never touch that essay again. If I do edit that essay again, especially in the way the users are concerned about that adds talk page input immediately after hearing it, then an official page ban can be in order. As you can see with my edits since the MfD ended, I can make constructive changes to other pages, mostly small changes that fix things like grammar.
— User:Unnamed anon

0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 13:03, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

• I agree. It may sound surprising, especially as I'm usually the first to support an extension of WP:ROPE, but in this particular case, I think that ship has sailed. Whereas usually attitudes soften and people become more comfortable in their surroundings, here it seems the opposite: that confrontation and a general refusal to take advice—and with a curious focus on settling old scores—shows that if anything, they have become less collegiate over the years and less likely to fit in with the community for the future. Perhaps if they could demonstrate a year or two of productive, anger- and confrontation-free editing at other projects, the WP:SO would probably become available. ——Serial Number 54129 17:43, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

user:elshadabulla1954 accussing of supporting not good people

so recently i was discussing with user:Elshadabdulla1954 about the importance of citing sources since they attempted to just claim on the elshad abdullayev page that elsha adbullayev was performing some crimes related to fraud. I of course reverted these edits since they were unsourced, however quickly I was accused on my talk page of "supporting a fraudster" and "defending a criminal" by user:Elshadabdulla1954 even though all I did was request for sources to be provided. I'm not entirely certain what my best course of action should be in this situation so if someone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated! ps: the comments are still on my talk page if you want to take a look at them Gaismagorm (talk) 11:13, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

alright the user has been blocked, so the issue is now resolved Gaismagorm (talk) 14:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

There should be a username block here sine the account is editing the relevant page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1011:b1c8:b754:6106:ae10:b44d:ecfc (talk • contribs) 11:29 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure, I don't want to be too hasty before reporting them to the username board Gaismagorm (talk)

Elinruby and BATTLEGROUND

Elinruby is currently involved in the broader, generally good effort to address the hard POV shift that occurred recently at Canadian Indian residential school gravesites and is being separately discussed at RSN. The Canadian article needs fixing and the edits earlier this month that suggested the gravesites were somehow fake are extremely bad. However, Elinruby's conduct has demonstrated the same BATTLEGROUND abuse of procedure and accusations/aspersions that have resulted in them receiving previous reports ([129]), warnings ([130]), and a block ([131]).

• Accusations of another editor whitewashing mass murder: [132]
• Accusing me of inserting fake news and then removing reliably sourced material, followed by refusing to engage in discussion when more recent reliable sources were presented: [133]
• Adding numerous spurious tags despite citations and relevance been immediately present (the tag if these are all arsons, say that. Stuff burns all the time in British Columbia is especially bizarre because the next paragraph explicitly discusses that these were largely arsons): [134]
• Saying they don't need to engage in discussion and suggesting that I'm racist for quoting a CBC News investigation that determined a link between outrage with the gravesites and a rise in arsons: [135]
• When asked to refrain from this behavior, they declared their talk page out of order for the next 24 to 48 hours and presented a list of Q and As, apparently gloating about having triggered other editors: [136]

Look: a different editor did heavily maul the article to suggest the gravesites were fake and that's bad. But Elinruby's longstanding pattern of unsubstantiated personal attacks has been particularly hurtful for me when, for the last two months, most of my time at my real-life job has been helping Native high school students establish action plans for their nations to take in addressing generational trauma caused by the boarding school system. This behavior has to be stopped. ~ Pbritti (talk) 19:13, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Related: Wikipedia:Administrators’ noticeboard/IncidentArchive1150 § Elinruby’s conduct. Northern Moonlight 22:07, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Blocked – for a period of one week: User talk:Elinruby#Block. El_C 22:11, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

apparently gloating about having triggered other editors: On reading the diff, something seems taken out of context. The text is Q[uestion]. But this Wikipedia article says it didn't A[nswer]. IF/ELSE branch triggered, return to GO [line break] Q. Why are you editing that article? A. IF/ELSE branch triggered, return to GO. I'm not 100% sure what it is saying, but I don't see a plain read where it constitutes gloating about triggering editors. "IF/ELSE" seems to refer to some abstract situation (possibly saying ElinRuby themselves is being 'triggered', as in prompted/motivated, to edit an article?). If there is some reason to 'translate' "IF/ELSE branch" as meaning people, I'd be interested in knowing.

By way of context for different editor did heavily maul the article, there is an RSN discussion (permanent link) about the use of unreliable sources in Canadian Indian residential school gravesites. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 03:31, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Computing pseudocode. If else is a common conditional; they're just sending the reader back to the top of FAQ with the "return to GO". Pretty sure trigger here is the general trigger, not trauma trigger. The two questions for which the answers are of that form are pretty basic "don't ask" questions on Wikipedia, so I don't see any problem specifically with those. I don't see a problem with the FAQ at all, unless the doubling down on the "whitewashing" claim is baseless, which I have not checked yet. — Usedtobecool ☎️ 04:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

It's a mistake to get caught up in the granular details of the items I collapsed. Because this happened in the midst of and seemingly in response to a related dispute (and a discussion a few sections up), it comes across as WP:BATTLEGROUND. Also in tone and tenor. And since it happened less than a day after a warning from another admin, I stand by the action. El_C 05:34, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

The "trigger" aspect that was brought up which I worried could derail discussion over a misunderstanding is what triggered my comment. Your block notice says a lot more and describes a long-term pattern (in fact, kudos to you for completely skirting that detail in all your comments), so indeed the granular details of that one thing are otherwise largely irrelevant. Except for the diffless doubling down on "whitewashing" accusation, the FAQ probably didn't need to be collapsed, would be as far as I would go based on what I know so far, if I were to challenge your actions, which I didn't, and don't, because the whitewashing accusation is grave, and diffless. Best, — Usedtobecool ☎️ 05:54, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

• From User talk:Elinruby (permalink):

The links and quotes below deal with some very disturbing history about documented murders of small children. Viewer discretion is advised.

I read that last post of SFR's as friendly advice from an admin I had just informally asked for an explanation of 1RR, not a formal warning. I am assuming that he thought "genocide" was an exaggeration. It is not. There was a formal finding to that effect by the Canadian House of Commons and Pope Francis has also said precisely that. [137][138] Certainly legalities prevented the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from saying so, but that doesn't mean they weren't scathing.[139][140] Or specific. Or that they didn't show the receipts. I hope SFR is enjoying his ducklings and I am not requesting he comment unless he wants to; he has enough going on.

I think that Pbritti misunderstood a number of things but that these aspersions may well have been made in good faith. The block log for example:

• current diff 145: a complaint that I gave an editor with ~100 edits a CT notice, which they interpreted as uncivil. Closed with no action by Star Mississippi (thank you, no comment needed unless you want to)
• current diff 146: Discussed with El C in the block section on my talk page if anyone cares. TL;DR: ancient
• current diff 147: Shortly before this LTA indeffed themself they page-blocked me for discussing changes to an article on its talk page. Not pinging them because they indeffed themself

Then the complaint itself:

• Accusations of another editor whitewashing mass murder: I actually should have said that they denied it. The article whitewashed it; they denied it based on a skim of that article. The context is here: [141] To my horror I discovered that the article did indeed say that. But let's get through these points.

• Accusing me of inserting fake news: The first time I ever heard of Pbritti was when he came to my talk page and threatened to take me to ANI.
• removing reliably sourced material: One broken ref for two paragraphs about three-year old unproven allegations
• refusing to engage in discussion when more recent reliable sources were presented: three-year-old source about a three-year-old tweet. The publisher itself is considered reliable, yes.
• spurious tags despite citations and relevance been immediately present: Uh...no. see next bullet point.
• the tag "if these are all arsons, say that. Stuff burns all the time in British Columbia is especially bizarre because the next paragraph explicitly discusses that these were largely arsons": Pbritti seems unfamiliar with the British Columbia wildfire season.[142][143][144] The same week, Lytton spontaneously combusted in temperatures of 49.6 °C (121.3 °F). But the key phrase is "the next paragraph". The section starts out of nowhere: By July 4, 2021 nearly two dozen churches...had been burned. He quoted the middle of what I said also, btw, please click the diff for context. The section implies that indigenous people committed arson, but no RS say so. The relevance tags have been removed now because they are "addressed by sanction". Go team Wikipedia!
• Saying they don't need to engage in discussion: Misinterpretation of I don't think there is much to discuss. Accuracy is a requirement.
• suggesting that I'm racist: Pbritti is once again again personalizing a remark about content: If you are talking about the unsourced allegations that indigenous peoples are committing crimes, I find the assertions racist and unfit for Wikivoice
• CBC News investigation that determined a link: One person found guilty so far: Mentally ill and mad at her boyfriend. Ethnicity unspecified. Something about correlation and causation and original research. That content still merits a HUGE {{so?}} tag.
• When asked to refrain from this behavior, they declared their talk page out of order for the next 24 to 48 hours: I won't stop thinking that accuracy is important. I tried to reply to Pbritti's good-faith admonishments, but he just kept going...
• apparently gloating about having triggered other editors:Capably translated by Usedtobecool; thank you
• a list of Q and As: It mentions no names and I am surprised that people are complaining that the shoe fits.

This is long so I will close by thanking Hydrangeans for pointing out the RSN thread, which also has two diffs of some definitely uh misinterpreted sources. Elinruby (talk) 17:02, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

copied by Usedtobecool ☎️ 09:34, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

CLIQUE-like behavior at Elephant article

Certain users (User:Wolverine XI, User:LittleJerry, others) are behaving like a CLIQUE at the Elephant article. Making false edit summary/talk page claims of unsourced changes, barereflinks, and, certainly subjectively, unhelpfulness. Refusing to even look at or address the issues/errors raised by outsiders (myself) -- from minor grammar issues to incomprehensible arcane jargon that need clarifying to incorrect adverbs. Then, they tell me to get lost. (See [145],[146], [147]). Notifications to follow this posting. Zenon.Lach (talk) 19:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

@Zenon.Lach: Your edits to the article have introduced a number of grammar and spelling errors that had to be fixed, as well as replacing sourced content with unsourced statements. While I think you have the right to be irritated that another editor told you to try your hand at articles not listed as featured (I'd say that's the mildest sort of biting), I really have to echo their sentiments. The editors replying to you have been fairly patient in explaining the issues with your edits and proposals and your use of bolded text comes across as aggressive. You may have better luck working on articles that are more clearly in need of improvement. If you need suggestions, feel free to ask. ~ Pbritti (talk) 19:34, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Untrue. I removed an incorrect adverb ("possibly"), fixed basic grammar ("rhinoceroses" not rhinoceros) and removed arcane text which makes no sense to non-zoologists. There was no painstaking fixing of errors just wholesale reverts and a refusal to even address points which I raised. Zenon.Lach (talk) 19:46, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

There's no need to carry on with this conversation if this many people concur that your revisions were unhelpful. Your refusal to accept your mistakes, as well as your need to win this argument, are counterproductive. Wikipedia isn't a combat zone. Though you have my patience, this is starting to irritate me. Why you go to such extreme measures to demonstrate that you are "right" and everyone else is wrong is beyond me. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 21:29, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) incomprehensible arcane jargon that needed clarifying, removed arcane text which makes no sense to non-zoologists. No, you removed the clear and interesting explanation why elephants have so many parasites, an explanation that this non-zoologist wouldn't have thought of but is pleased to have learnt. And you just deleted it. NebY (talk) 21:38, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

And on such things as basic grammar we go by what reference works say (which are nearly all in agreement that the plural of "rhinoceros" can be either "rhinoceros" or "rhinoceroses") rather than what one Wikipedia contributor says. You are not always right, and a failure to realise that will lead to your Wikipedia career being very short. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:50, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I am more than willing to admit when I am wrong. I acknowledge not knowing that rhinoceros is a zero plural noun. But that's the point. Why did it take going to this point to get an answer? Why didn't anyone in the clique respond to any of these points instead of being dismissive and chauvinistic?

Far more important, however, are the following:

• "Elephants tend to have high numbers of parasites, particularly nematodes, compared to many other mammals. This is due to them being largely immune to predators, which would otherwise kill off many of the individuals with significant parasite loads." -- my bachelor's degree notwithstanding, this clunkily arcane claim (likely copied and pasted from the reference source) makes no sense as written. I doubt I am the only one who would feel that way after reading it. I do not see why requesting a rewording is beyond the pale.

• "the population in Sri Lanka appears to have risen" -- this is false. It is rebutted in the very reflink to which it is attributed ([148]) as well as [149].

However, since I am blackballed from the Elephant article, and would get no satisfaction or response there, anyway, I will raise these issues here. Zenon.Lach (talk) 22:44, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

The reflink states exactly "In Sri Lanka, the population has increased." So you're wrong. LittleJerry (talk) 22:50, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

"Although efforts to map the current range-wide distribution of the species are afoot, evaluations of elephant presence in some range countries suggest a declining trend: elephant distribution is estimated to have reduced by ca. 20% in Sri Lanka between 1960 and now (Fernando et al. 2019);..." Zenon.Lach (talk) 22:55, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

"The Sri Lankan elephant population has fallen almost 65% since the turn of the 19th century.

(https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sri-lankan-elephant). Zenon.Lach (talk) 22:58, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

"The government estimates the population of Sri Lankan elephants, a subspecies of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), at about 7,000. But wildlife conservationists suggest the real number may be far lower, given the rapid loss of the animal’s habitat and the rising death toll from conflict with humans." ([150]). Zenon.Lach (talk) 23:39, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

(likely copied and pasted from the reference source) No it wasn't, stop making false claims. LittleJerry (talk) 22:56, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

"Elephants tend to have high numbers of parasites, particularly nematodes, compared to many other mammals. This is due to them being largely immune to predators, which would otherwise kill off many of the individuals with significant parasite loads" -- then what was the original wording? Whoever reworded it rendered it unintelligible. Zenon.Lach (talk) 23:01, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

You can continue at the talk page. But the book is available here. LittleJerry (talk) 23:12, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

It still makes no sense. It needs rewording or just copy as one quote without cutting anything because something is being lost in translation. Zenon.Lach (talk) 23:36, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

It's clear what it means and you're the only person who doesn't understand. LittleJerry (talk) 00:20, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

No, it's relatively hard to understand. I've made it easier (I have the book). See Special:Diff/1224543588 —Alalch E. 00:36, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

This is okay too: Special:Diff/1224530808/1224547147. —Alalch E. 01:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Zenon.Lach (talk) 01:30, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome and thanks for bringing this up, but you should have done this yourself by simply reading the source, understanding what it says, and coming up with a better way to present what it says in the article. You were right that the sentence was not so good, but there was no need for this much contention, and no need for this ANI thread. —Alalch E. 01:39, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Untrue. Check the article edit history and other links/diffs above. They kept wholesale reverting my edits, accusing me of unsourced edits, barereflinks and unhelpful editing all while refusing to even discuss the individual points I had gone to the trouble of separating and explaining my position on, one by one. Zenon.Lach (talk) 01:59, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

If you aren't willing to take a step back, and learn from the more experienced editors, then there's no reason I should be talking to you. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 06:15, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I looked at the talk page and see discussion from the editors you're saying refused to discuss which predates this thread. So it's quite difficult to accept the claim about people "refusing to even discuss". Also as I said below, you stated that the predator thing was confusing but did not propose any alternative wording or even explain why it was confusing. If other editors felt it was understandable and clearly they did, ultimately it's quite difficult to actually deal with your concerns if you're not willing to articulate further. Definitely removing it wholesale was not acceptable. So if anyone "refusing to even discuss" it seems to be you since you tried to remove text wholesale then just said it was confusing but did not explain further and then came to ANI. Nil Einne (talk) 11:16, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

As someone not involved in this dispute, the sentence appears perfectly understandable to me. Elephants are too big for predators, so even the (weaker) elephants with parasites don't get killed by predators, so we end up with elephants that have lots of parasites. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 08:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Yeah I had the same thoughts. Maybe it's because I have a biological sciences background or something I don't know, but it seemed understandable. I mean personally I wouldn't use the word immune, but it was still understandable. If the OP felt it was confusing, it was fine to try and re-word if, but not to remove it outright. And once there was dispute, the solution was to discuss on the talk page rather than just push ahead. From what I see at Talk:Elephant#My edits, the OP said they found it confusing but I do not see any proposed replacement or suggested rewording. If they'd done that, maybe they would have been able to come up with a better wording which dealt with their concerns. Nil Einne (talk) 11:09, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

The OP rightfully felt it was hard to understand and we should be extremely receptive to such complaints, especially in a featured article. Yes, it was understandable, but it wasn't easily understandable, as it was extremly terse while dealing with multiple concepts at the same time, such as predator pressure and parasite load, and hinting at natural selection, positing a relationship between these concepts that isn't obvious without an adequate, sufficiently explicit, explanation. (Presented as an unqualified statement of fact, the claim was also not carried over from the source faithfully, as it needed either attribution or a construction such as the currently used "may be due to"; in the source, the claim is a hypothesis/conjecture.) The OP was correct to seek for this sentence to be changed, but they should have been able to do it themselves, based on the source, and the source is, in fact, very understandable (also showing how the sentence wasn't very good, because why should an academically written monography on a biological topic be easier to follow than an article in a general-purpose encyclopedia). It was changed subsequently and is better now.

Hopefully, Zenon.Lach you can finally agree now that, yes, you identified a problem, but you didn't address it completely constructively. In the future, you are very welcome to identify problems, but then you must also do a reasonably good job at addressing them. If you can't agree to this, and intend to keep making such edits, that remove legitimate information from an article, where the correct solution is simply to rewrite a sentence based on the provided source, it could be the case that you can't function that well as an editor. —Alalch E. 11:50, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Alalch E.: I don't object to your re-wording but mostly I don't find any wording particularly clearer or easier to understand. I mean I do agree with you that the original wording was too definitive but that could have been fixed without needing a wholesale rewording and that doesn't seem to have been the OP's concerns. The only other thing I dislike in the original wording was the word "immune". While it's fairly obvious it doesn't refer to any form of biological immunity, personally I'm a stickler to avoiding words which have a distinct in the subfield of concern when possible. But I understand many may not agree so it's not a big deal to me. If you or the OP feel the original wording was a problem, it was up to you to come up with a better wording, or at least better articulate why you felt the wording was a problem. You've done both things, and I congratulate you from that and hope it's a lesson to the OP. However I don't think you can fault others for not seeing the problem when the OP failed to explain their concerns, and at least I (so I expect others too) still don't share your view even after you explained and re-worded. Since putting aside fixing the definitive issue, the generally wording is no worse, and you feel it's clearer, it's clearly better to use your wording. Likewise if the OP has come up with a wording that they felt was better and I felt was no worse, I would have supported the OPs wording. But again, I don't think you can fault others for not seeing fault when in their eyes their is none. That's the beauty of Wikipedia, if something works for some people, but doesn't work for others through the collaborative process we can improve it so it works for more people. But this requires people who see a problem to either fix it or at least better articulate the problem when others don't see it. I mean it's possible some might see it the same way, as you did, and some problems are so obvious that anyone should see them. But we have to be very wary of blaming others just because they do not see things the same way, when they're very likely perfectly willing to accept changes if others are able to explain why they feel they're needed even if they don't share that view. If an editor fails to do anything other than just say it's a problem and other editors don't see it the same way, it doesn't mean they're not taking the concerns seriously. It may just mean they do not share the concerns and cannot do anything when the editor just randomly says it's a problem, tries to remove it wholesale, the comes to ANI because people aren't wiling to discuss. Other times of course, other editors may not see a problem when the editor says it's a problem but then when they articulate why it's a problem or come up with a different wording, they may agree actually you're right, there was a problem. Again I don't think you can say editors weren't taking the concerns seriously. I mean perhaps if they'd spend 10-20 minutes thinking about it and reading, they would have noticed the problem. But this seems excessive when the editor who saw it was a problem could just have said more than it's a problem. Nil Einne (talk) 13:01, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

What I don't get is that no one's mentioned that the predators are a red herring (if you will excuse the odd metaphor): Just write Because of their longevity, elephants tend to have high numbers of parasites, particularly nematodes, compared to many other mammals. EEng 08:21, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Anonymouselz777

New editor making repetitive, large text removal from a CTOP article. See:[151] O3000, Ret. (talk) 20:42, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Yeah surprised to see this account still kicking. Arkon (talk) 21:03, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I corrected article bias, which was complained about by others in the talk page. Articles should not contain political bias leanings. They should only state the facts. Objective3000 tried to keep the left leaning bias in the article. Sadly, this behavior makes people believe that Wikipedia is a liberal website. Every Wikipedian should be working to eliminate article bias. I still left many of the negative statements about James O’Keefe; I simply removed some of the bias in the article. Unless such changes are made to all articles, Wikipedia will continue to be regarded as a liberal website. This should not be a political battleground but a reference for people on all sides of the political spectrum. Anonymouselz777 (talk) 21:46, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Your edit-warring was reverted by four editors including an admin and you have not discussed on the talk page. O3000, Ret. (talk) 21:52, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia’s edit warring policy, I am not edit warring because I am stopping vandalism to the biography of a living person. Anonymouselz777 (talk) 21:57, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

You have now tried to force this change for the fifth time. [152] O3000, Ret. (talk) 21:56, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I have blocked Anonymouselz777 for 72 hours for edit warring. They can use that time learning what vandalism actually means on Wikipedia. Cullen328 (talk) 22:02, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Yeah after the block they have continued to accuse O300 of vandalism. Lavalizard101 (talk) 22:37, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Doesn't bother me. Let them vent a bit. O3000, Ret. (talk) 00:00, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

New user is turning redirects into unreferenced articles. Not responding to reverts or talk page comments

Selamsize (talk · contribs) has so far turned several redirects into articles that are completely without references. I and several other users have reverted these edits only for them to revert back with no edit summary. I have placed a couple warnings on their talk page but this user has not responded. TornadoLGS (talk) 21:34, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Blocked – for a period of 72 hours (article space): User talk:Selamsize#Block from article space. El_C 22:36, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

@TornadoLGS: thanks for reporting this. The behaviour actually began with Sevgilerde (talk · contribs) (created 18 April), first creating similar articles about DCi and CRD, then Selamsize (talk · contribs) (created 18 May) creating them more aggressively. Might be a forgotten password, or might be SP/MP.

Worth mentioning that newer account Selamsize's persistence also extends to at least twice creating their malformed list articles at talk pages: article attempts at Talk:D4-D were twice moved to Draft:D4-D 2 and Draft:D4-D 3, the first by User:Liz and the second by me. Wikishovel (talk) 05:53, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the background. Those pages may eventually require long-term protection, but I guess we'll see. Feel free to keep me updated. El_C 06:18, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Sevgilerde has today resumed editing on the same topics, and recreated them in main space at D4-D, Ford TDCİ engine, CRD (engine) and DCi. There seems little point in draftifying these, as the editor appears to either not be interested in the feedback, or may possibly have a CIR issue: note the frequent use of Turkic capitalised "İ", same as Selamsize. Should I open an SPI for this? Wikishovel (talk) 08:14, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

If you do (open an SPI), may be worth including Alirasitsaribas in it, as well. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:30, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. And now Mervanlar as well, created 15 May, first edits today. Okay then, an SPI it is. Wikishovel (talk) 09:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Just came to say that. It's starting to get a bit disruptive, they're moving these drafts around, submitting to AfC without any improvement, or just publishing. Taking a lot of time and effort from others to keep cleaning up the mess. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:08, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

It certainly is. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sevgilerde is now filed, with a backlink to this discussion. Wikishovel (talk) 10:19, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Researcherofgreatness

For a substantial period of time, the user Researcherofgreatness (talk · contribs) has made questionable edits and blanked content on dozens of pages related to Nigeria. There appears to be a concerted effort by this WP:SPA to remove or diminish notes of non-Yoruba ethnic groups and their languages while falsely amplifying Yoruba groups; this has now escalated to an ethnic-based attack on another user.

To cite a few examples of Researcherofgreatness' conduct:

1. South West (Nigeria): For context, the South West is a "geopolitical zone" in Nigeria that roughly lines up with the Nigerian section of Yorubaland but includes many other ethnicities. Researcherofgreatness was first brought to my attention when they removed most non-Yoruba languages without reason from the South West page. This is a tactic that has been employed several times before on geopolitical zone pages, with ethnic jingoist accounts associated with major ethnic groups removing the languages of minorities (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). It is a good mark for a user that is not here to build an encyclopedia and was a key piece of evidence in the eventual blocking of a similar user. However, it had not occurred on the South West page yet so I reverted and went to Researcherofgreatness' talk page. In the replies, the account somewhat reveals their motivations, falsely claiming that the Ewe and Gun languages simply are not spoken in Nigeria and dismissing non-indigenous languages as languages for "migrants" that do not count for whatever reason. In a move I just noticed today, Researcherofgreatness actually went to the Ewe people page to remove southwestern Nigeria from its lede. Clear attempts to remove non-Yoruba groups and languages from pages relating to southwestern Nigeria.
2. Agbada: For context, Agbada are a form of popular Yoruba robes. Researcherofgreatness created the article for Agbada in 2023; however, the account has spent the last few months engaged in a dispute. Like other flowing robes in West Africa, most historical accounts (that I have seen, I'm not an authority on this topic) categorize the agbada as a form of boubou (a West African kaftan) which was adapted from clothing brought from North Africa through trans-Saharan trade networks. A user — Oluwafemi1726 (talk · contribs) — has attempted to add this history to the Agbada page, but Researcherofgreatness has repeatedly removed the section without stated reason. In line with an ethnic agenda, it appears as if Researcherofgreatness does not want such an iconic Yoruba garment associated with a foreign origin regardless of factual accuracy or the literal millennia that may have passed since the kaftan first arrived in Yorubaland. Moreover, the account clearly has issues with WP:OWNBEHAVIOR on the page, regularly referencing that they created the page as if others need approval to edit it and threatening to "lock" the page if others make edits (despite not having that power).
3. Cannibalism in Africa: It appears one of the only times that Researcherofgreatness has edited something about a non-Yoruba group and not mass removed information was when they added "reports of cannibalism in post colonial Igboland" to this page. The source was flimsy at best and appears to be self-published, so it looks like an attempt to disparage Igbo people — another large Nigerian ethnicity.
4. Yoruba people: One of Researcherofgreatness' most recent inappropriate edits was to entirely remove the "Names" section from the Yoruba people page, claiming it was "lies and antagonistic" that wasn't on the Hausa or Igbo pages. This again shows that the account has no interest in building an encyclopedia as they are entirely willing to blank well-sourced sections purely because they are here to wage ethnic disputes. Like with the Agbada page, it appears as if Researcherofgreatness did not want evidence that Yoruba is a relatively recent ethnic identifier on the page regardless of factual accuracy.

There are many other examples throughout their editing history, some relatively banal (like a penchant for adding "of Yoruba descent" to pages without sourcing) and some pretty obviously rule-breaking (like implying that I have no right to edit the South West (Nigeria) due to their perception of my ethnicity). There needs to be some form of action against this user, this is a clear and concerted campaign of ethnically-biased edits — which are not common but have plagued some Nigerian pages (I reported a similarly biased account last year). Researcherofgreatness' focus on Yoruba food and clothing seems genuine and would be a well-needed addition to Wikipedia; however, they seem incapable of being objective and their conduct towards other users is very worrying. Thank you, Watercheetah99 (talk) 04:54, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

There are definitely some troubling, consistent patterns with that editor. Constant hostility, edit-warring, opinion-pushing. The Agbada diffs are particularly bad, not just from a content standpoint, but the WP:OWN and strongly implying in the edit summaries that they have administrative powers if people don't cooperate [153] and [154]. Whether WP:NPA, WP:NOTHERE, WP:EDITWAR, or WP:FAKEADMIN (and on and on), there's a smorgasbord of things to choose from for a justified indef. This is an area that needs fewer battlefield generals, not more. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 07:23, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Objection. It's the user above that has a bias. There are so many trolls on Wikipedia. I am only here to contribute honest content not engage in troll drama. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 01:53, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

I have edited topics for other ethnic groups all in good faith. Recently, as you can see, I edited on Jambalaya and Gumbo. The User above is a liar. I won't even bother addressing the other accusations, that blatant lie alone is clear. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 01:55, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Researcherofgreatness, Watercheetah99 has compiled a compelling case demonstrating bias in your editing. It is detailed and likely to sway uninvolvd editors who review cases on this noticeboard. It would be to your benefit to address the specific complaints and not just dismiss them by casting aspersions that the other editor is a "liar". That's a terrible defense if you want to continue to edit here. What happens with you on this project will partially be due to providing an adequate response to what seem like valid complaints about your behavior. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:06, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Urgent clarification on advertorial/PR puffery sources on suspected undisclosed paid editing

I am at a loss whether this is the right venue for this, but if not please pardon and help take this to the right venue. My question is that is it right to remove unreliable sources before nominating articles for deletion or remove them after being nominated? I recently nominated three articles Gbenga Adigun, Tony Edeh, and Jom Charity Award for deletion due to their clear lack of notability. The articles are clearly standing on advertorial/PR sponsored articles masquerading as reliable sources. Now some editors are commenting keep with the sole reason that those articles have enough sources to pass notability guideline. If I remove those unreliable sources I may be guilty of edit warring which I do not want be involved in. Please review sources in those articles as uninvolved editors LocomotiveEngine (talk) 05:29, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Once a deletion discussion has been started, there should be no need to remove sources from the article while it is ongoing. Indeed, it is usually a good idea to keep them in full view so that commenters can easily access and evaluate them. Any keep or delete conclusions made in the discussion should be reached on the basis of the quality of these sources, and presence of plenty but bad sources should thus not unduly enable a Keep outcome, if things go as intended. Time enough to cull the list (or the entire article) based on the eventual outcome. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:09, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

User: Hopefull Innformer

• Hopefull Innformer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Yasuke (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

There have been numerous instances of User:Hopefull Innformer seemingly violating Wikipedia:No personal attacks onTalk: Yasuke. Specifically, User:Hopefull Innformer has made multiple disparging comments about others who disagree with them on the talk page, with multiple instances of them accusing other Wikipedians of being "From twitter", inferring other editors aren't sincere, and inferring that other editors are obsessed and/or pushing an agenda.

I approached them here User_talk:Hopefull_Innformer#Talk:_Yasuke to post a reminder not to engage in Personal Attacks, User:Hopefull Innformer accused me instead of violating WP:GF, and stating that "If a moderator thinks "Okay you clearly come from twitter" believes that is in any way a "personal attack" by any means I'll edit that part out and apologize", which I can only assume means to bring it here, as Wikipedia does not have moderators. X0n10ox (talk) 08:53, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

As you were the last person to reply on their talk page, saying The point of bringing the point to your Talk Page is to attempt a resolution without having to bring the Admins in on it, I believe it would've been wiser to wait for a reply of theirs before directly bringing the topic here. (Yes, the talk page got in my watchlist automatically as I was technically the one to create it...) Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 09:06, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I had considered waiting to see if they replied, but my understanding of their initial response was to get higher powers involved and so I made my reply and then came over here to pop off the request for an admin. I apologize if it's deemed too hasty of me to do so. X0n10ox (talk) 09:37, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Don't worry, it's not that big of a deal, it's more of a question of etiquette but you're right that it would probably have had to be discussed here sooner or later. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 09:54, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

"Higher powers"? I guess I know what you mean but I've had a long day and that made me laugh. Time to get back to my mop. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:15, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Vandal is back yet again with disruption, stalking and harassment

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Following on from this and this, the same vandal has returned under the new name DiddyDidIt2ya (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), reverting a string of my recent edits, again with uncivil edit summaries. As before, that account has made no constructive edits to the encyclopaedia. – SchroCat (talk) 10:15, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

indeffed. Rack 'em jp×g🗯️ 10:28, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

These British LTAs need to write me a guide to their weird insults. What the hell is a "plonker"? What's a "wittol"? Is that RD2? I know calling somebody a "nonce" is RD2. jp×g🗯️ 10:32, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

A plonker is either a part of the male anatomy or a man who consents to let his friends sleep with his wife/partner. It can also mean fool. 2001:4430:4175:F3BF:81EB:595:63D6:6A92 (talk) 10:52, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I did ask directly, so thanks, I suppose. jp×g🗯️ 11:01, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

• JPxG Given the initial vandal from the first thread was operating from a South Korean IP address, and given this (incorrect) comment is also from an IP in the same region, I’m inclined to think there may be a connection. - SchroCat (talk) 10:55, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

  Somewhat bizarre. That's the only contribution from this IP, whereas the /32 has many hundreds across different articles, including some quite arcane discussions on back-office drama boards such as this one. I don't know exactly how these subnets work, and should probably leave this to somebody more capable of not blocking an entire ISP, although I guess bro here can catch 12 hours. jp×g🗯️ 11:00, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

BTW, a plonker is a dick. Same meaning - both as penis and acting like a dick. The IP was wrong on the rest. - SchroCat (talk) 11:14, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it is definitely a mild insult meaning "fool" ("Rodney, you plonker"), but I've never heard the other definition; however a "wittol" is a cuckold. Black Kite (talk) 11:49, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary says plonker means fool, penis, and cuckold all in one. wound theology◈ 11:52, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, 'cos Wiktionary is about as reliable as it gets...not. - SchroCat (talk) 11:55, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

The old OED thinks it comes from the onomatopoeic verb "plonk" and describes something dull or thick, including in a nineteenth-century example, cloth. I've often heard it used that way, including in polite company, but not anatomically. NebY (talk) 12:08, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

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2601:646:201:57F0:0:0:0:0/64 again

• Contribs

Since the recent report about this got kind of forgotten about, this IP really needs the long-term CIR block reinstated. bradv's unblock was really inappropriate. Their contribs consist mainly of irrelevant link dumps on talk pages and in articles, long quotes inserted into articles, possibly pushing COPYVIO, and an apparent inability to communicate about the problems raised. The disruption has only continued at a high rate since the unblock with no signs of stopping. A mass rollback might be warranted here as well. (Not notifying the IP due to the near impossibility of doing so with an IPv6). 35.139.154.158 (talk) 16:27, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Here's just one of many such edits, for an example. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 16:32, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

User needs TPA revoked

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Blocked user Mrnehalislam63 (talk · contribs) is continuing to use their talk page for promotional editing. TornadoLGS (talk) 19:27, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

•  Done. Black Kite (talk) 19:33, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

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Entire IP range vandalizing and disrupting tons of Wikipedia pages.

2603:8001:B202:3294:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · block user · block log)

This entire IP range is vandalizing / disrupting several articles without hesitation and stop. Most of the edits are sourceless and few of them include unrelated sources. Many of these accounts are sockpuppets that target the same articles, but not only that, it seems that just over the past 24 hours, the IP range has started to vandalize article's talk pages, user talk pages, personal user sandboxes, personal user archives and several Wikipedia articles as well, of course.

This IP range is already blocked from 2 articles, but I would suggest to block the entire IP range from editing anything in Wikipedia (anon-only) as the disruption will never start.

Here you can see just some of these examples. Affected pages just within the last 24 hours (except from the Croatian kuna page, as the range was blocked from there 3 months ago) and the other pages are from the last 48/72h:

• Almería (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Tabernas Desert (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Eurasian eagle-owl (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• El Ejido (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Climate of Europe (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Climate of the European Union (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Totalitarianism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Germany–Japan relations (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Croatian kuna (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Talk:Almería (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)
• User talk:Joy (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)
• User talk:Farell37 (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)
• User:Farell37/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• User talk:Scheridon (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)
• User talk:Asqueladd/Archive003 (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)

Last 24/48/72 hours as well:

• KCBS-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• WBBM-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• WLNY-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• WFOR-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• WCCO-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• KPIX-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• KCNC-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• WJZ-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• WKBD-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• WPKD-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

And many more TV stations pages, honestly won't count them all.

• Villa La Angostura (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) as well.

--WikiEditor1890 (talk) 19:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

This user also seems to break WP:NPA in their own talk page when asking to be unblocked from the partially blocked pages: Unblock me, if not, you are a Catalan separatist! --WikiEditor1890 (talk) 19:50, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Also, it seems that i'm being targeted by these IP users, sincc i'm more active editor than WikiEditor. The fact that this IP user's edits are not properly cited with reliable sources, he himself sent me on my talk page about the snow in the Almeria mountains, which doesn't even have anything to do with the article. Furthermore, he edited my sandbox unnecessarily, just saying that they are talking about setting up some autonomous communities. Also, this same user changed the Koppen climate classification of the Tabernas desert without any specific reason.

Now my point of view: all this gets stranger after the confrontation with the user Weatherextremes ends. I say this because this same user has already tried to add several unproven sources that it snowed in Almeria, instead of just relying on AEMET data. Furthermore, as soon as Weatherextremes became inactive (last edition 15 march), these IP users began editing the Almeria article for no specific reason, in addition to editing other Wikipedia articles. This is my assumption, since there are other things that this user edited that don't make any sense and that Weatherextremes has never edited articles of this type. Farell37 (talk) 21:43, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

180.75.233.40

Please notice this user kept removing Chinese language in articles, adding Arabic ones. I'm not sure whether this behaviour complied with the rules. -Lemonaka‎ 10:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Malaysia is not a Chinese country, the official language is Malay written in both Latin and Jawi script. 180.75.233.40 (talk) 10:49, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Then you should have a try for edit summary. Removing something not obvious without edit-summary are likely to be suspected as vandalism. -Lemonaka‎ 11:09, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Ok next time I will put the summary, btw I already put the statement in the caption. 180.75.233.40 (talk) 11:14, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

And you should have tried discussing with this person first rather than giving them an inane template and one minute later running to ANI. 108.35.216.149 (talk) 11:16, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

The IP statement at the start is wrong, Malaysia's official language is Malay written in the Rumi (Latin) script, not Jawi. At any rate, the presence of absence of official sanction is not the sole determinant of alternative languages on our articles. The mass addition and removal of various languages to Malaysia-related articles is not a new conduct issue, but remains a disruptive one. CMD (talk) 11:17, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

WP:BATTLEGROUND User:BilledMammal

This editor is using whatever means necessary to enter a battleground with editors who enter into the slightest dispute with them.

My first intereaction with BilledMammal was back in November, back then, I reverted a single one of their edits. And the user responded by digging through my editing history, in order to find wherever I may have violated 1RR rules and subsequently opened an arbitration notice against me.

Fast forward to present day, I've reverted another one of BilledMammals edits. And how do they react? By once again, digging through my editing history, searching for possible 1RR violations. Threatening to have me blocked unless I restore their edits.

I don't know if this is behavior is allowed on Wikipedia or not but it's certainly immoral. Ecrusized (talk) 11:17, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

For context, the full November AE report. In addition, prior to that report I had asked them to self-revert; they responded by reverting my requests, which prompted ScottishFinnishRadish to say an assurance from Ecrusized that they're going to engage when issues are brought up … is sufficient here

That doesn’t appear to have happened, with them recently reverting a 1RR concern from a different editor without responding to it, and then today a concern from me about the removal of a disputed tag.

Finally, this feels a bit like forum shopping; this concern has been repeatedly rejected at AE, most recently a week ago. BilledMammal (talk) 11:28, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

"an assurance from Ecrusized that they're going to engage when issues are brought up … is sufficient here"

"That doesn’t appear to have happened, with them recently reverting"

You are so manipulative, I don't even know where to begin. I was talking to you on the article talk page about the issue, which you did not respond to. However, you did find time to leave me a strong worded warning on my talk page, simply for just reverting you once. This was followed by digging through my edits from past weeks in bad faith, presenting incorrect 1RR violations. Ecrusized (talk) 11:35, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

• "This editor is using whatever means necessary to enter a battleground with editors who enter into the slightest dispute with them." Pot, meet kettle. That is pretty much how I would describe construing a note as a block threat and escalating it immediately to ANI. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:43, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
• Finally, this feels a bit like forum shopping; this concern has been repeatedly rejected at AE, most recently a week ago (permanent link): I must admit my confusion about this link from BilledMammal (and therefore also about the forumshopping charge leveled against Ecrusized's behavior). The link isn't to a concern about BilledMammal brought to Arbitration Enforcement; it links to an Arbitration Enforcement request that BilledMammal submitted about a different user, Dylanvt.
  Without commenting one way or another on Ecrusized's behavior and whether boomeranging applies, the concern about some of BilledMammal's edits verging on (or becoming) battlegrounding seems unfortunately plausible. BilledMammal has been previously sanctioned for abuse of process also in this topic area that the admin called using boards for taking out opponents from an area, or for making them give up editing. In April and May, BilledMammal was advised about unproductively bludgeoning discussions ([155] [156]) and received an Arbitration Enforcement block for edit-warring in the Israel–Palestine topic area. At a minimum, I would hope that the present thread reminds BilledMammal to exercise restraint when contributing in contentious topic areas. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 12:06, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

I have indefinitely topic banned Ecrusized from the Arab/Israel conflict, broadly construed. Opening an ANI report against another editor because they brought up your 1RR violation while at the same time having an open report at AE against another editor claiming 1RR violations is bad enough, but combined with the 1RR violations, lack of understanding of 1RR, and personal commentary towards other editors, we're firmly in topic ban territory. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:33, 20 May 2024 (UTC)